Senior Engineer Bioinformatics

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leads
San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will design, build, release, and maintain biology software, pipelines, datasets, and benchmarks for genomics and structural biology. You will validate and package releases, maintain public repositories, work with researchers and maintainers, turn research code into reusable software, lead technical direction, and rigorously review AI-generated code.

Requirements

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics
  • Structural biology
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Cloud computing
  • Cluster computing
  • Large dataset
  • Testing
  • Continuous integration
  • Release engineering
  • Validation
  • Benchmarking
  • Documentation
  • Packaging
  • Versioning
  • AI coding tool
  • Technical leadership
  • Code review

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain biology software, pipelines, datasets, and benchmarks
  • Own testing, validation, benchmarking, documentation, packaging, and release decisions
  • Maintain released software, triage issues, review contributions, and manage breaking changes
  • Represent the work through conferences, workshops, tutorials, and researcher collaboration
  • Turn research code into well-tested reusable software with computational and experimental scientists
  • Lead technical direction through design review, code review, and mentoring
  • Build with AI coding agents and validate agent-written code

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours