[Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration (AI)

TL;DR

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration (AI): Building infrastructure that enables thousands of employees to be productive via agents with an accent on agent runtime platforms and internal knowledge management. Focus on defining the future of agentic productivity at scale, building scalable platforms, and improving agent performance and correctness.

Location: Hybrid (San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA). Must be in office at least 25% of the time.

Salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society.

What you will do

• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for agentic productivity at the frontier of AI.
• Build and ship the agent runtime platform and associated tooling for provisioning and running agents.
• Develop agent harnesses and experiment with context management strategies to improve agent correctness.
• Write evaluations and benchmarks to measure and optimize agent behaviors.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability while establishing operational excellence practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to increase the velocity and quality of research and engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of experience leading large-scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead.
• Significant experience with AI agents, specifically those performing technical or knowledge work.
• Proven track record of building scalable platforms.
• Must be based in or be able to work from San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA to meet the 25% office presence requirement.
• Excellent communication skills for supporting internal partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with container or VM orchestration at scale.
• Background in developer productivity, including CI/CD and build systems.
• Experience building widely adopted CLI tools and services.
• Experience working directly with AI researchers and engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave policies.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Work within a "big science" research culture focused on high-impact, cohesive efforts.
• Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates.