Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their public sector engineering team, where the role involves building and deploying AI products for government use while ensuring compliance with security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks
• Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing deep understanding of how agencies actually operate
• Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases
• Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps
• Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments
• Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

Skills

• Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations
• A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills — you'll partner with sales, legal, research, and policy teams alike
• Minimum 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
• Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software engineer
• Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
• Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption
• Experience deploying software on government networks
• Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)

Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

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