Staff Software Engineer, Search
Staff engineer on Anthropic's new search platform team, building scalable search infrastructure from scratch to power Claude's information retrieval — designing indexing, retrieval, and ranking systems plus the metrics and tooling to measure search quality, using languages like Python, Go, or Java.
- Compensation
- $320K–$405K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
- Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
- Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role
Full description
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, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the Role
We're building Anthropic's search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude's ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
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Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch
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Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality
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Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency
You may be a good fit if you:
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5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
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Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking
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Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
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Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$320,000—$405,000 USD
LogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.