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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 funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026

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 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