AI Frontier · AI lab
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 32 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector Staff+ Software Engineer for Anthropic's public sector team, focusing on building and scaling AI applications for governments. This role involves full-stack development, customer collaboration, and adapting Claude for government workflows, particularly in national security and public services. The position requires experience with AI/ML models and shipping enterprise/government-grade products, with a strong emphasis on public sector experience and adapting AI for critical operations. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend Experienced backend engineers to own and scale the backend systems powering Anthropic's user-facing products like API, Claude Code, and Claude.ai. The role involves scoping and leading complex projects, making architectural decisions for reliability and scalability, and translating frontier model improvements into shipped products. Specific teams focus on API core, capabilities (vision, tool use), knowledge integration, developer experience, agent infrastructure, enterprise foundations (security, compliance, analytics), identity/verification, and marketplace platforms. | ShipAgent | 7 |