Currently tracking 127 active AI roles, down 32% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $46k–$850k (avg $406k).
Anthropic currently has 151 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which constitute 32% of their openings. Engineering is the most frequent function, followed by Research. The majority of their hiring is concentrated in the United States. Frequent technical tags include evals, model_serving, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on the practical deployment and management of AI systems.
Anthropic currently has 149 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Regional Research Economist, Economic Research (2), Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) (2), Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training (2), Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering (2), Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Anthropic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (31%), serving infrastructure (15%), post-training (15%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Anthropic is hiring AI talent in: United States (130 roles), United Kingdom (18 roles), Canada (6 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at Anthropic most frequently mention: Machine Learning, AI Safety, Production ML Systems, System Design, Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the past 30 days, Anthropic has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a -27% change versus the prior 30 days (33 → 24).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Software Engineer, Code RL Staff Software Engineer focused on the engineering aspects of reinforcement learning for AI coding capabilities, specifically creating and scaling agentic coding environments. The role involves designing frameworks and APIs for researchers, managing production RL runs, and improving the reliability and structure of research codebases. It emphasizes Python expertise, API design, and anticipating system failures. | AgentData | 9 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science Staff+ Software Engineer for Claude Science at Anthropic. This role involves building AI products that serve as a workbench for researchers, enabling them to conduct scientific work from hypothesis to publication. The engineer will partner with research teams to push model capabilities into production, shape product roadmaps, and translate user needs into engineering priorities. The role focuses on shipping AI-powered scientific tools and improving model performance for scientific tasks. |
| ShipAgent |
| 9 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products Staff+ Software Engineer for Anthropic's Enterprise AI Products team, focusing on building organizational context and workflows (plugins, skills, connectors, webhook-triggered agents) to make Claude a daily-use tool for enterprise customers. This role involves technical leadership, end-to-end product delivery, customer interaction, and close collaboration with research to integrate model capabilities into production. | AgentShip | 9 |
| Evals Infrastructure Tech Lead / Manager Lead the team building and scaling the distributed systems that orchestrate, schedule, and execute evals for frontier models, ensuring measurement quality, reproducibility, and that eval signal reaches decision-makers. This role involves managing engineers and contributing directly as an engineer, focusing on inference, research, and infrastructure engineering. | Eval GateServe | 9 |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer for Safeguards Research at Anthropic. Focuses on building and scaling infrastructure, data pipelines, and tooling for ML research, specifically for detection and mitigation of AI misuse. Owns training, evaluation, and scoring workflows, aiming to improve iteration speed, throughput, cost, and reliability of inference and scoring workloads. Bridges research and production by creating reliable, production-grade jobs from research workflows. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| [Pipeline] Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration Staff+ Software Engineer to join Developer Acceleration team, responsible for the infrastructure enabling thousands of employees to be productive via agents. The role will define the future of agentic productivity at scale, own technical strategy, build and ship the runtime platform and tooling, write evals to benchmark agent behaviors, and ensure infrastructure scalability and reliability. | Agent | 9 |
| Manager, Applied AI Engineering, Life Sciences (Beneficial Deployments) Manager for Applied AI Engineering focused on Life Sciences, leading a team to build and deploy AI solutions (agents, integrations, tools) for scientific organizations. The role involves deep customer engagement, understanding scientific workflows, and ensuring reliable, reproducible access to biological data for AI agents, with a strong emphasis on safety and responsible deployment in a regulated-like environment. | Agent | 9 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Runtime Staff+ Software Engineer for Anthropic's Inference Runtime team, focusing on the accelerator-agnostic core of their AI inference serving stack. The role involves setting technical direction, owning the architecture and roadmap, hands-on coding in Rust/Python, optimizing accelerator usage, and building validation systems. Requires deep systems engineering or ML infrastructure background with experience in performance optimization and large-scale distributed systems. | Serve | 9 |
| Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals Software Engineer role focused on building and owning the evaluation infrastructure for an agentic investigation system. This involves designing experiments, constructing high-quality eval datasets, measuring agent performance, analyzing coverage gaps, and productionizing research into release pipelines. The role also involves building tooling for policy experts and constructing RL environments to improve safety investigation capabilities. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) Research Engineer focused on building and improving the RL training infrastructure and tooling at Anthropic. The role involves identifying and removing bottlenecks in the RL stack, partnering with researchers and other engineering teams, and owning the reliability and performance of research runs to enable faster iteration and shipping of better models at scale. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Security Labs Engineer This role focuses on executing security R&D projects end-to-end, building novel security infrastructure, and driving successful experiments toward production scale. It involves working with research teams to test security controls, evaluating new security technologies, and documenting results to inform future security architecture. The role spans from initial project scoping to potential production deployment, with a focus on high-assurance environments and AI-assisted security tooling. | ServeShip | 9 |
| Prompt Engineer, Agent Prompts & Evals This role focuses on prompt engineering and evaluation development for AI-first products and features, bridging model capabilities with user experience. It involves designing, testing, and optimizing prompts, building evaluation suites, supporting model launches, and contributing to prompt development frameworks. The role requires strong software engineering skills, LLM and prompt engineering experience, and understanding of evaluation methodologies. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Model Quality Software Engineer, Claude Code Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction at the intersection of engineering and research on the Claude Code team. Architect systems, tooling, and evaluation infrastructure to measure, understand, and improve Claude's coding capabilities. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, and influence the direction of Claude Code. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Startups Applied AI Engineer role focused on advising and partnering with AI-native startups to build on the Claude Developer Platform. Responsibilities include technical guidance, developing evaluation frameworks, designing scalable architectures, and creating technical resources to help startups succeed with Claude. Requires production experience with LLM-powered applications, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks. | Agent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Reward Models Platform Research Engineer focused on building platforms and infrastructure to automate and accelerate the reward model development and evaluation workflows for ML researchers at Anthropic. The role involves creating tools for rubric development, human feedback analysis, reward robustness evaluation, and detecting reward hacks, with the goal of enabling rapid iteration and improving reward signal quality for training AI models. | Post-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Interpretability Research Engineer focused on building and maintaining specialized infrastructure for interpretability research in AI systems. This involves developing tools for model analysis, optimizing training and inference pipelines, and ensuring reliability for safety audits, with a strong emphasis on understanding and controlling model behavior. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, RL Engineering ML Systems Engineer focused on Reinforcement Learning Engineering to build, maintain, and improve the algorithms and infrastructure for training AI models like Claude using RLHF and other advanced techniques. The role emphasizes improving system performance, robustness, and usability to accelerate research breakthroughs in AI capabilities and safety. | Post-train | 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Research Tools Machine Learning Systems Engineer focused on developing and optimizing encodings and tokenization systems for Anthropic's Finetuning workflows. This role acts as a bridge between Pretraining and Finetuning teams, building infrastructure crucial for model learning and data interpretation, impacting research progress and efficiency. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Performance Engineer, GPU This role focuses on optimizing GPU performance and systems engineering for large language models, specifically improving utilization and efficiency for inference and training at scale. It involves deep work in GPU programming, custom kernel development, and distributed systems. | ServePretrain | 9 |
| ML Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards ML Infrastructure Engineer focused on building and scaling critical infrastructure for AI safety systems, including real-time and batch classifier/safety evaluations, monitoring, and optimizing inference for safety-critical applications. | Eval GateServe | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator) Engineering Manager for Anthropic's performance and scaling teams, focusing on optimizing compute resources for inference and training systems. The role involves leadership, technical contribution, bottleneck identification, and ensuring efficiency in large-scale ML systems, with a strong emphasis on GPU/accelerator programming and ML/OS internals. | ServeData | 9 |
| TPU Kernel Engineer TPU Kernel Engineer responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across ML systems (research, training, inference), with a focus on designing and optimizing kernels for TPUs. Provides feedback to researchers on model performance impact. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code Software Engineer to build and maintain new agentic coding tools for developers, leveraging advanced LLM features like tool-use, chaining, and orchestration. Requires expertise in React, full-stack development, and hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering. Experience with safety, security, or compliance requirements is a plus. | Agent | 8 |
| Red Team Engineer, Safeguards This role focuses on adversarial testing and red teaming of AI systems and products to uncover vulnerabilities and ensure safety. It involves simulating sophisticated threat actors, researching novel testing approaches for capabilities like agent systems and tool use, and developing automated testing frameworks. The goal is to translate findings into concrete improvements and establish metrics for detection effectiveness. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Safeguards Interventions Engineering Manager for Anthropic's Safeguards Interventions team, responsible for leading a team that develops and deploys systems to handle safety violations in AI models. The role involves roadmap ownership, cross-functional collaboration, ensuring production reliability, and making critical safety vs. product tradeoff decisions for AI products. | Ship | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform, responsible for provisioning and running compute and runtimes for internal agents. This role involves owning technical strategy, managing execution, prioritizing work, building and shipping the platform, defining secure agent execution, building reusable primitives, and ensuring infrastructure scalability and reliability. The role also requires collaboration with security teams and supporting internal teams in agent development. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Labs: Applied AI Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI role at Anthropic focused on building full-stack applications that bring frontier AI capabilities into workflows for non-technical professionals in less software-native roles. The role involves rapid prototyping, user immersion in unfamiliar domains, collaboration with research teams, and rigorous experimentation to validate product concepts, aiming to ship early and often to maximize learning in an ambiguous, uncharted territory. | Ship | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform Engineering Manager for the Agent Runtime Platform, responsible for provisioning and running compute and runtimes for internal agents. The role involves owning technical strategy, managing execution, prioritizing work, building and shipping the runtime platform and tooling, defining secure agent execution, building reusable primitives, and ensuring infrastructure scalability and reliability. Requires strong experience in building and operating large-scale platforms/distributed systems and technical management, with a focus on agent platforms and security-sensitive infrastructure. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Vertical AI Products (Multiple Roles) Staff+ Software Engineer for Anthropic's Vertical AI Products team, focusing on building industry-specific AI products (financial services, science, healthcare, enterprise) that integrate Claude. The role involves technical leadership, end-to-end product ownership, close collaboration with research, and direct customer engagement to shape and deliver AI solutions. | Ship | 8 |
| Manager, Applied AI Engineering Manager of Applied AI Engineers leading a team that advises enterprise customers on adopting and deploying LLM APIs (Claude). Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, setting technical direction, developing evaluation frameworks, and channeling field insights back into product development. Focuses on advanced implementation patterns for LLMs, including prompting and agentic systems. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Cloud Safety Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Safety team, responsible for scaling and optimizing Claude's serving infrastructure across Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). The role involves owning end-to-end safety, including API, inference, classifiers, fraud detection, data management, and operations, to ensure safe usage and enable the launch of new models and features at scale. | Serve | 8 |
| Product Engineer, Computer Use Product Engineer role focused on building and shipping AI-powered computer-use and browser-control product surfaces. This involves full-stack development, agent harness, and working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks. The role requires end-to-end ownership and iteration based on user feedback, with a focus on reliability and robustness of the agent harness. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, RL Data Software Engineer on the RL Data team responsible for building systems that produce high-quality reinforcement learning data for Claude. This includes data collection pipelines, human feedback tooling, execution environments, and quality assurance. The role involves end-to-end ownership of stack components, iterating on prompts and evals, developing QA frameworks, hardening execution environments, and collaborating with domain experts and operations partners. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products Engineering Manager for AI-powered cybersecurity products, leading a team to prototype and ship products using frontier models. The role involves setting technical direction, partnering with research, and staying close to customers. It requires hands-on technical involvement, product instincts, and scaling the team. | AgentShip | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Claude Design Software Engineer to build and shape Claude Design, a product that lets users collaborate with Claude to create visual work. This is a frontend-leaning role focused on creating intuitive AI-generated design experiences, working closely with researchers and users to iterate and validate product concepts. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Research Tools Engineering Manager for Anthropic's Research Tools team, focusing on building and improving systems for large-scale, distributed finetuning runs and enhancing researcher productivity. The role involves prioritizing team work, designing operational processes, coaching reports, and managing recruiting efforts to support rapid growth in AI model development and research. | Post-train | 8 |
| Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Enterprise Tech (Cyber) Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Enterprise Tech (Cyber) at Anthropic, responsible for leading a team that drives the adoption of Anthropic's AI products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, API) within Enterprise Tech companies. This role involves technical guidance, pre-sales engagements, customer strategy, and ensuring the safe and reliable deployment of AI systems. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Full-Stack Software Engineer to build platforms, tools, and interfaces for environment creation, data collection, and training observability for RL. The role involves owning product surfaces end-to-end, iterating on data collection strategies, and partnering with researchers to ship reliable products. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Safeguards Staff Software Engineer to build and operate safety, oversight, and intervention mechanisms for AI models (Claude) on third-party cloud service provider (CSP) platforms. This role ensures requests are monitored for misuse, enforced against policy, and compliant with data residency and privacy commitments. The engineer will integrate Safeguards into the CSP inference serving path, focusing on real-time enforcement, telemetry, and privacy architecture, while maintaining serving-path latency and scale. The work directly impacts the ability to ship frontier models on CSP platforms safely. | ServeEval Gate | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Agent Prompts & Evals Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Prompts & Evals team, responsible for the infrastructure that enables shipping model and prompt changes with confidence. This includes eval frameworks, system prompt pipelines, and regression-detection systems. The team acts as a platform for model behavior, sitting between product engineering and research, and partners with other evals groups and product teams. The role requires leading and growing a team, owning the product-side eval platform and system prompt infrastructure, managing model launches, fostering collaboration, recruiting engineers, and shaping team investment in areas like frontier eval development and launch automation. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Cloud Inference AWS Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Inference team for AWS, responsible for scaling and optimizing Claude's inference, API, load balancing, capacity, and operations on AWS. The role ensures LLMs meet performance, safety, and security standards, and enhances global inference technology deployment. It focuses on increasing operational scale and accelerating the launch of new models and features. | Serve | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Vertical AI Products (Multiple Roles) Engineering Manager for Vertical AI Products at Anthropic, focusing on building and shipping AI products for specific industries like financial services, life sciences, and healthcare. The role involves leading engineering teams, defining products, working with enterprise customers, and collaborating with research to improve AI models. The teams are often building products from scratch (0->1) or scaling existing ones. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Senior Staff Software Engineer for Anthropic's Claude Developer Platform team, focusing on API Engineering. This role involves setting technical strategy for systems that make Claude accessible to developers at scale, ensuring reliability, capability, and growth. Responsibilities include defining multi-year technical strategy, leading complex engineering initiatives, making major architectural decisions, partnering with Research, Inference, Platform, Infrastructure, and Safeguards, and mentoring engineers. The role spans API Core, Capabilities, Knowledge, Distributability, and Agents, with a focus on shipping frontier model capabilities and agentic workflows. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, People Products Staff Software Engineer focused on building AI-native workflows and LLM-native features for internal people products at Anthropic. The role involves full-stack development, designing and implementing AI tools, evals, and prompts, and working directly with internal stakeholders to iterate quickly. Emphasis on autonomy, shipping products rapidly, and making independent product and architecture decisions in a low-structure environment. | Agent | 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Life Sciences (Beneficial Deployments) Applied AI Engineer role focused on deploying Claude in life sciences to accelerate scientific progress. The role involves partnering with research institutions, building agents integrated into scientific workflows, and developing ecosystem infrastructure like MCP servers, benchmarks, and agent skills. The goal is to make Claude a go-to tool for the life sciences ecosystem, from discovery to pharma pipelines. | Agent | 8 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Manager for a new Forward Deployed Engineering team at Anthropic, focused on helping enterprise customers adopt Claude. This player-coach role involves hiring, developing, and leading a team of FDEs to ship production AI applications, build playbooks, and influence product direction. Requires strong leadership, technical mentorship, and customer-facing experience. | Ship | 8 |
| Design Engineer, AI Capability Development (Education Labs) This role focuses on building and shipping AI-native product features that enhance human capability and skill development, operating as a technical lead within a research-focused team. The engineer will prototype, define technical direction, and collaborate across functions to integrate skill development principles into Anthropic's broader product strategy, measuring success by user capability growth. | Ship | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal Civilian Forward Deployed Engineer for Anthropic's Applied AI team, embedding with federal civilian customers to drive AI adoption and ship advanced AI applications built on Claude models. Responsibilities include building production applications, delivering technical artifacts like sub-agents, providing deployment support, identifying repeatable patterns, and building customer relationships. Requires strong programming skills, production LLM experience (prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation, scaling), and experience with government agencies. | Agent | 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments Applied AI Engineer focused on deploying AI to mission-driven organizations, advising on AI applications like evals and agent architectures, and building infrastructure to scale impact. Requires production experience with LLM applications and a builder mindset. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure Staff+ Software Engineer role focused on building the agentic layer and infrastructure for Claude App, enabling task execution, tool use, and safe interaction with external services. This involves designing and building sandboxed compute environments, state management for agent tasks, authentication/authorization, and observability tools for agent execution at scale. | AgentServe | 8 |