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# Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector at Anthropic

- **Company:** Anthropic
- **Location:** Friendly, United States / San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Washington, DC
- **Compensation:** $405k–$485k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5205704008

## Job description

## About Anthropic

Anthropic’s 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 bringing Claude to the U.S. government and allied democracies, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to grow our public sector engineering team. This is a small team with large surface area. You’ll work across the stack to take products from 0 to 1 and beyond.

We are looking for product- and civic-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling great products. The opportunities outpace our ability to build them all, so the right candidate thrives on sharp judgment, prioritization, and focus. You’ll own work like:

- Building Claude products that can be used by customers in highly regulated environments
- Deploying Claude into government networks
- Understanding and improving Claude’s usefulness in common government workflows – for example, policy research, benefits administration, intelligence analysis
- Scaling and innovating Claude for Government, our existing product serving U.S. government customers today

Our team is filling a number of roles and is open to candidates with either full-stack or backend experience.

## Key responsibilities

- Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks
- Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing deep understanding of how agencies actually operate
- Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases
- Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps
- Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments
- Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

## Minimum qualifications

- Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations
- A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills — you’ll partner with sales, legal, research, and policy teams alike

## Preferred qualifications

- Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software engineer
- Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
- Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption
- Experience deploying software on government networks
- Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)

This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports a United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit [anthropic.com/careers](http://anthropic.com/careers) directly for confirmed position openings.

## How we're different

We 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. We're 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 about [our policy](https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance) for using AI in our application process.

## About Anthropic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation) – [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/company)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA – inferred from job listings on [anthropic.com/jobs](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the company website lists Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei on the Board of Directors but does not explicitly identify them as founders – [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company))

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI safety and research; frontier AI model development
- **Target customers**: B2B – businesses, nonprofits, civil society groups, and end-users of its AI tools (e.g., Claude)
- **Mission/purpose**: “Making AI systems you can rely on” and “the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity” – [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/) and [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Claude**: AI assistant “designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless.” Deployed via API and direct interfaces for businesses, nonprofits, and individuals. Type: SaaS/API – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers) and [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed in provided sources; the company operates with a large team and active hiring (56 open roles as of the search date)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from the provided search results (the company page lists board members including Reed Hastings and Vas Narasimhan, but does not specify investors)
- **Growth Signals**: 56 open roles across research, engineering, product, and operations; emphasis on scaling the team while maintaining a “high-trust, low ego” culture – [anthropic.com/jobs](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Safety-first differentiation**: Anthropic treats AI safety as a systematic science, investing heavily in interpretability, steerability, and reliability research.
- **Interdisciplinary team**: Researchers, engineers, policy experts, and operators work closely together; engineers often co-author research papers.
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Legally committed to long-term benefit of humanity, not just shareholder value – [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company)

## Strategic Focus
- **“Ignite a race to the top on safety”**: Pushing the industry toward safer AI through research, product deployment, and collaboration with governments and civil society.
- **Act for the global good**: Making decisions that maximize positive long-term outcomes for humanity, including bold safety measures – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High-trust, low ego” organization that values what you can do over pedigree. About half of technical staff have no prior ML experience; half have PhDs. Engineers do research and researchers do engineering.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Most staff are in the Bay Area and come to the office regularly; some work remotely and visit one week per month. Flexible during relocation.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, 22 weeks paid parental leave, fertility benefits (Carrot), $500/month wellness stipend, annual education stipend, home office stipend, daily meals in office, retirement matching, equity donation matching, visa sponsorship for eligible roles.
- **Interview process**: Technical roles use live coding (Colab/CodeSignal); non-technical roles are conversational. Accommodations available. No internships currently – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [Anthropic Company Page](https://www.anthropic.com/company)
2. [Anthropic Homepage](https://www.anthropic.com/)
3. [Anthropic Careers Page](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)
4. [Anthropic Jobs Board](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)

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