Staff+ Software Engineer Developer Acceleration

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 9/24/2026

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 define technical strategy for agentic productivity and translate goals into execution. You will build and ship agent runtime platforms, tooling, harnesses, and context-management approaches. You will create evaluations, improve scalability and reliability, and collaborate across functions to establish quality standards and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • Build and operate large-scale distributed systems
  • Lead large-scale complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • Have experience with agents performing technical or knowledge work
  • Build scalable platforms
  • Communicate effectively and support internal partners
  • Understand the evolution of human work
  • Have experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
  • Have developer productivity or infrastructure experience, including CI/CD and builds
  • Build widely adopted CLI tools and services

Responsibilities

  • Define the future of agentic productivity at scale
  • Own technical strategy and roadmaps
  • Define quality standards for agent-driven engineering work
  • Build and ship runtime platforms and tooling
  • Build agent harnesses and experiment with context-management strategies
  • Write evaluations that benchmark agent behavior
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver impact
  • Own infrastructure scalability and reliability
  • Establish operational-excellence practices

Benefits

  • Equity donation matching
  • Vacation leave
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours