Software Engineer Tokens and Prompt Structures
1 month agoLeadSalary: 320K - 405KSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYHybridEngineeringJobs by Anthropic
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AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Series F+Recently funded51 current maintainers45 active leads15 new active leads30 lead step-downs10 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the design and maintenance of encoding libraries and developer-facing APIs. You will run structured-data experiments, design robust abstractions, adapt libraries for new research directions, ship ideas to production, and optimize encoding performance across dependent systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience maintaining libraries, SDKs, or developer-facing APIs
- Familiarity with machine learning terminology and LLM architecture
- Experience carrying out complex refactors in large codebases
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work closely with researchers and engineers
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve encoding libraries
- Run experiments on feeding structured data into Claude
- Design data structures and abstractions for encoded data
- Adapt encoding libraries for emerging research directions
- Ship research ideas to production
- Optimize encoding performance across dependent systems
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours