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Staff Software Engineer, Search

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers,

Company

Anthropic

Location

San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-11T23:13:18+00:00

Anthropic is hiring a staff software engineer for a new search platform team, building systems that let Claude access and retrieve information. The role covers designing core search infrastructure from scratch, setting metrics and tooling to measure search quality, and improving indexing and ranking algorithms. The posting asks for five or more years on production distributed systems, knowledge of indexing, retrieval and ranking, strong Python, Go or Java skills, and high-volume data processing experience. It lists a salary range and says visa sponsorship is possible but not guaranteed.