Staff Software Engineer Search
1 week agoLeadSalary: 320K - 405KSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYHybridBackendJobs 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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
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 design and implement core search systems from the ground up. You will establish metrics and tooling to evaluate search quality, improve search algorithms and indexing mechanisms, and increase search accuracy and efficiency for information retrieval.
Requirements
- 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
- Knowledge of indexing, retrieval, and ranking
- Coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
- Experience with high-volume data processing architectures
Responsibilities
- Build the search platform from scratch
- Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality
- Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship support
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
