Software Engineer, Anthropic

Claude.AI

$300-405k

+ Equity

React
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

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Anthropic

AI safety and research company

Open for applications

Anthropic

AI safety and research company

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

$300-405k

+ Equity

React
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Role

Who you are

  • Have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, preferably building APIs and/or interfaces
  • Have strong practical coding skills, ideally in React or other frontend languages/technologies, and experience with service-oriented architectures
  • Take a user-centric approach to product development, prioritizing solutions that are robust, scalable, accessible, and intuitive
  • Are passionate about the potential of AI to revolutionize the way we work and eager to tackle cutting-edge challenges in human-machine collaboration
  • Have 0 to 1 experience with a proclivity towards shipping and learning, while balancing a high quality bar
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and and enjoy working closely with cross functional partners and teammates

Desirable

  • Have experience with REST APIs
  • Have experience with containerization and DevOps
  • Have experience with QA and testing automation
  • Have experience with privacy and security best practices
  • Possess a vision for the future of human-machine interaction and a drive to make that vision a reality

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a software engineer to join our Claude.AI product team and help build innovative interfaces and APIs that enable powerful interactions with advanced language models
  • You will work with a talented team of engineers, researchers, design and Product teams to design and implement key components of our product and platform, pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI-powered tools
  • Develop powerful solutions that leverage the power of language models to streamline tasks and boost productivity
  • Optimize the API and interfaces for performance, scalability, and an intuitive user experience
  • Personalize the experience to ensure accessibility and a seamless integration in people’s day to day work
  • Collaborate with researchers to continuously improve interfaces based on real-world user interactions and feedback
  • Implement tools and processes to monitor model behavior, performance, and alignment with user needs
  • Contribute to the development of novel human-machine interaction paradigms that redefine how we work with AI

Application process

  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Our take

Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.

While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.

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Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

190% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jul 2024

$50m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2024

$200m

LATE VC

Total funding: $7.8bn

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
  • Generous subsidy for OneMedical
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • $500/month flexible wellness stipend
  • Commuter coverage
  • Annual education stipend
  • A home office improvement stipend when you first join
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area

Company values

  • Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
  • Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
  • Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
  • One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Dario Amodei

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.

Jared Kaplan

(Co-Founder)

Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jack Clark

(Co-Founder)

Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.

Sam McCandlish

(Co-Founder)

Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.

Tom Brown

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.

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