Anthropic

Staff Software Engineer: Compute

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Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$405k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build core systems tracking datacenter sites, designs, bills of materials, equipment, and construction progress.
  • Embed with datacenter, energy, and supply-chain teams to understand workflows and build essential operational tools.
  • Migrate and reconcile spreadsheets and legacy trackers and integrate construction management, scheduling, and engineering systems.
  • Design fine-grained permissions, auditability, and data quality for high-stakes investment information.
  • Ship early, iterate with users, and prioritize work that brings compute online sooner.
  • Partner with research on model capabilities and their limitations in engineering-heavy, physical-world domains.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building software, with strong full-stack skills and grounding in data modeling, APIs, and databases.
  • Experience building software relied upon by teams in datacenters, construction, energy, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or another physical-world industry.
  • A track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments.
  • Strong user-centricity, judgment, agency, and communication across engineering, operations, and research.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field, though formal education credentials are not required.
  • Preferred experience includes datacenters or adjacent fields, domain tooling such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Primavera P6, PLM/BOM, ERP, procurement, CAD/BIM, DCIM, or power system studies; engineering or energy systems background; and building products with large language models.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $405,000—$485,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is available with role- and candidate-specific limitations and reasonable efforts after an offer.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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