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From the employer's careers site First seen 18 Jun 2026 · Still live on 27 Oct 2026

Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

Anthropic San Francisco, CA Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$1-$2 USD per year

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Description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for its public sector team. The successful candidate will work on building and scaling AI products for government customers.

Core Responsibilities

  • Build specialised AI applications and products for governments by developing a deep understanding of their processes and workflows.
  • Take ownership of architecting new deployments and designing public sector-specific features.
  • Collaborate closely with research on AI models for government applications and workflows.
  • Partner directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to translate requirements into technical and product roadmaps.
  • Design and build scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls.
  • Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer.
  • Experience integrating and working with AI/ML models and understanding their capabilities.
  • Strong technical background with proven success building and shipping enterprise or government-grade products.
  • Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions.

Nice to Have

  • 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 delivering software to government networks.
  • Active federal security clearance (Secret or above).

Logistics

  • 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.
  • Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
  • Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Lovely office space.

Skills

Required

  • full-stack software engineering
  • AI/ML models
  • enterprise software development

Nice to have

  • startup experience
  • government software delivery
  • federal security clearance

Ready to apply?

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