Staff Software Engineer, Search

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

We're building Anthropic's search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude's ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up

Responsibilities

Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency You may be a good fit if you: 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures 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: $320,000 — $405,000 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.