Staff Software Engineer, Claude Developer Platform (Backend) at Anthropic

About AnthropicAnthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.About the role:Anthropic is looking for a product-minded engineer to build a world-class developer experience for the Anthropic API. Youll build the tools to accelerate developers from idea to particular youll help figure out how to leverage Claude to improve developers usage of the API such as generating and evaluating prompts. Youll collaborate closely with other product teams to bring Claudes current and future capabilities to developers.We have multiple roles open on this team and are looking for experienced engineers at different stages in their career who are excited about this space and our mission.Responsibilities:Build out the frontend and backend for helping developers bring their applications to productionPartner with partner teams ensure sure new product features are integrated into the developer console in an intuitive wayUse product sense to propose and implement improvements to the developer experience of using the APIWork with researchers to understand new model capabilities and design unique products that help users maximize their use of the Anthropic APIYou might be a good fit if you:Have 7-10 years building production full-stack software with a focus on usabilityHave strong communication skills and user empathy to understand needsAre an expert in modern web development stacks (React etc)Have demonstrated a strong product mindset and a focus on iterative product developmentStartup experience building products from zero to oneExperience building APIs and/or developer products for external developersStrong candidates may also:Have experience with React and frontend frameworksHave experience with REST APIsHave experience building products for developersDeadline to apply:None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.Location Preference: Preference will be given to candidates based in the SF or Bay Area as these positions are part of an SF-based team.The expectedbase compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity benefits and may include incentive compensation.Annual Salary:$320000 - $405000 USDLogisticsEducation requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.How were differentWe believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.Come work with us!Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application processRequired Experience:Staff IC Key Skills Campaigns,JSP,Dhtml,Loans,Automobile Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1 Monthly Salary Salary: 320000 - 405000