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.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science Research Engineer/Scientist focused on AI safety and alignment, conducting experiments to understand and steer AI behavior, with a focus on risks from powerful future systems. Involves collaboration with interpretability, fine-tuning, and red teaming teams. Explores scalable oversight, AI control, stress-testing, automated alignment research, alignment assessments, safeguards research, and model welfare. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training Research Engineer focused on post-training of large language models, including techniques like Constitutional AI and RLHF, to enhance model capabilities, alignment, and safety for production Claude models. Involves implementing, scaling, and optimizing these processes, conducting research for improvements, and developing evaluation tools. |
| Post-train |
| 9 |
| Research Engineer, Knowledge Team Research Engineer focused on redesigning how LLMs interact with external data sources by designing new information architectures and training models to use them. Responsibilities include implementing information architecture strategies, performing finetuning and RL, building knowledge base eval sets, and designing agentic search capabilities. Requires strong Python, ML research experience, and experience with LLMs. Experience with complex agentic systems, RAG, and distributed information retrieval is a plus. | AgentPost-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 |
| Product Manager, Claude Code Product Manager for Claude Tag, an agentic system integrated into collaboration tools, focusing on expanding its reach to new platforms and managing external partnerships. The role involves defining core interactions, owning strategy and roadmap, managing adoption, and working with engineers and partners. | 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 |
| Product Manager, Safeguards (Child Safety) Product Manager for Safeguards (Child Safety) at Anthropic, focusing on building and deploying safety systems for AI models. This role involves ideation, design, development, and deployment of Safeguards systems and product UX to ensure safe advancement of frontier models. Responsibilities include defining safety by design, writing safety evals, prioritizing problems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, understanding AI landscape risks, and developing metrics for risk assessment. Requires 5+ years of product management experience with a focus on technical tradeoffs, user understanding, strategy development, and metric design in a rapidly changing environment. | Eval GatePost-train | 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 |
| Research Product Manager, Model Behaviors Product Manager for Model Behaviors at Anthropic, focusing on defining and shaping Claude's character and behaviors by partnering with the Alignment Finetuning team. The role involves identifying behavioral improvements, coordinating across teams, and translating research breakthroughs into product enhancements to ship well-aligned models. | Post-train | 8 |
| Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms Product Manager for Anthropic's Safeguards team, focusing on building and deploying systems to ensure AI safety and prevent misuse. This role involves ideation, design, development, and UX for safeguards, working closely with research and product teams to mitigate risks associated with frontier models across various platforms. | Eval GateAgent | 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 |
| Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Startups Manager of Applied AI Architecture for startups, leading a team of technical architects to drive adoption of frontier AI and help startups build AI-native products using the Claude Developer Platform. Focuses on technical partnership, building teams, defining playbooks, and influencing product roadmap. | Agent | 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 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — ML Systems & Performance This is a research fellowship program focused on AI systems and performance, with the goal of producing public outputs like paper submissions. Fellows will work on empirical projects, potentially involving building ML systems, data pipelines, or infrastructure for accelerators, using external infrastructure and open-source models. | Data | 8 |
| Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Partnerships Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Partnerships role at Anthropic, focused on driving adoption of frontier AI products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, API) through system integrators and cloud partners. Responsibilities include leading a team of Partner Solutions Architects, establishing pre-sales engagement processes, co-building partner strategy, enabling partner AI practices, developing joint solutions, and supporting partner-led pre-sales engagements. Requires technical depth in enterprise AI deployments and experience managing technical teams. | Ship | 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 |
| Product Manager, Safeguards (Verticals) Product Manager for Anthropic's Safeguards team, focusing on building and deploying systems to ensure AI safety and prevent misuse. This role involves ideation, design, development, and deployment of safeguards, working closely with research and product teams to create detections, evals, interventions, and tools for risk mitigation. The PM will drive strategy, prioritize features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop metrics to assess performance and inform future planning. | Eval GateAgent | 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 |
| Biological Safety Research Scientist Research Scientist focused on biological safety for AI systems, applying technical skills to design and develop safety systems that detect harmful behaviors and prevent misuse. This role involves designing and executing capability evaluations, collaborating on training data and safety system training, analyzing performance, and stress-testing safeguards. The goal is to ensure biological safety is embedded throughout the model development lifecycle, balancing AI's potential in life sciences with preventing misuse. | Eval GatePost-train | 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Inference Engineering Manager for Anthropic's performance and scaling teams, focusing on improving model performance and scaling inference and training systems. Responsibilities include front-line leadership, managing day-to-day execution, prioritizing work, and coaching reports. Requires management experience in technical environments, background in ML/AI, and interest in safe AI development. | ServeData | 8 |
| Performance Engineer This role focuses on optimizing the performance, throughput, and robustness of large-scale distributed machine learning systems. The engineer will identify and solve novel systems problems, implement low-latency sampling, adapt models for low-precision inference, optimize serving efficiency, and design fault-tolerant distributed systems. While not directly building ML models, the role is critical for enabling ML algorithms to run efficiently at scale. | Serve | 8 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy at Anthropic. This role focuses on establishing and leading the privacy engineering function for AI systems, architecting privacy-preserving systems, implementing privacy-enhancing technologies, and providing technical leadership. It involves working at the intersection of privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems, with responsibilities including designing privacy-preserving architectures for training and inference, building privacy infrastructure, translating regulations into technical implementations, and leading privacy reviews. The role requires experience with privacy engineering principles, Python/Go, production systems at scale, data governance, and privacy regulations. | DataServe | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Search Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team, responsible for the search stack behind Claude, including indexes, retrieval, ranking, and serving infrastructure. The role involves owning the strategy, roadmap, search quality, and operating the platform at scale, with a product dimension to define search experience. Requires strong technical depth, product mindset, and experience managing engineering teams and search systems. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure Staff Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments at Anthropic. This role involves designing APIs, frameworks, and tooling to support researchers in building and operating AI agents, with a focus on stateful distributed systems, agent runtimes, and productionizing research for AI capabilities improvement. | AgentData | 7 |
| Recruiting Solutions Engineer This role focuses on enabling recruiters to effectively use AI (Claude) in their hiring workflows. It involves educating users, providing technical support, and building prototypes for AI-assisted hiring processes. The engineer will translate recruiter-built skills into reusable assets and design evaluation approaches for these workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Violence & Extremism This role focuses on building and executing operational workflows to assess AI model behavior, drive enforcement decisions, and develop evaluations for violence and extremism policy areas. It involves designing automated enforcement systems, creating evals to measure model performance, and partnering with engineering and data science teams to optimize detection and enforcement. The role also requires reviewing flagged content, identifying misuse patterns, and staying updated on emerging threats and AI policy enforcement best practices. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Review Tooling Staff+ Software Engineer for Anthropic's Safeguards Review Tooling team. This role focuses on building internal tools and platforms for safety investigators to identify and act on harmful behavior. Responsibilities include developing investigation tooling, a platform layer for reusable APIs and data storage, scaling review through automation with Claude, and partnering with various teams to ensure effective enforcement systems. The role emphasizes building guardrails for sensitive tools, instrumenting shipped tools, and ensuring tooling evolves with privacy and data retention commitments. Experience with full-stack or platform engineering, shipping internal tools, and cross-functional collaboration is required. Preferred qualifications include experience with trust and safety tooling, privacy/compliance constraints, integrating LLMs/agentic systems, and building developer platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Enablement Lead, Claude Platform This role focuses on enabling Anthropic's go-to-market teams by creating technical content, demos, and hands-on labs for the Claude Developer Platform. The Technical Enablement Lead will translate new platform capabilities into field-ready materials, deliver training, coach technical sellers, and provide feedback to the product team. The role requires hands-on experience with LLM APIs and agents, including tool use and agent frameworks, and experience in a customer-facing technical role. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment Software Engineer focused on designing and building the deployment infrastructure for AI inference services across various hardware accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, Trainium). The role involves optimizing deployment orchestration, capacity-aware scheduling, and observability to ensure safe, quick, and uninterrupted production releases, managing resource constraints and minimizing cycle time from code merge to production. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Safeguards Review Tooling Engineering Manager for Anthropic's Safeguards Review Tooling team, focusing on building and scaling systems for AI safety investigation and enforcement. This role involves leading a team to develop tooling that supports human reviewers and integrates AI (Claude) for automation, with a strong emphasis on privacy, analytics, and a sandbox environment for rapid iteration. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the distributed systems that serve large language models (like Claude) to millions of users. The role involves maximizing compute efficiency, enabling research through high-performance inference infrastructure, and integrating new AI hardware and model architectures. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering Staff + Sr. Software Engineer role focused on scaling and optimizing Claude's inference on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Responsibilities include owning the end-to-end product of Claude on each cloud platform, API integration, intelligent request routing, inference execution, capacity management, and day-to-day operations. The role involves validating inference server and load balancer changes, ensuring correctness, performance, and reliability. Key tasks include bringing up inference for new model architectures, integrating new inference features, fixing cross-platform differences, designing and owning CI/CD infrastructure, driving down cycle time for validation, and analyzing observability data for bottlenecks and regressions. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference This role focuses on building and optimizing backend services and infrastructure for serving large language models (LLMs) like Claude across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs). The engineer will be responsible for API integration, intelligent request routing, inference execution, capacity management, and day-to-day operations, ensuring reliability, cost-effectiveness, and performance at massive scale. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and CSP partners, CI/CD automation, and analyzing observability data. | Serve | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Safeguards This role focuses on building and scaling a data-driven culture within an AI company, specifically for safeguards. The Data Scientist will analyze user behavior, define key metrics, identify opportunities for product improvement, design and analyze experiments, and establish data best practices to inform product and commercial strategy for safe, frontier AI deployment. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Performance Engineer, Inference Systems Performance Engineer for Anthropic's inference fleet (Claude), focusing on throughput, latency, reliability, and correctness. The role involves cross-layer performance investigations, improving correctness evaluation pipelines, building observability tools, and partnering with component teams to implement optimizations. Requires strong performance engineering, Python, and data analysis skills, with a genuine interest in correctness as an engineering discipline. | ServeEval Gate | 7 |
| Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Enterprise Tech) Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Enterprise Tech) at Anthropic. This role leads a pre-sales team focused on driving the adoption of frontier AI for enterprise customers in verticals like fintech and cybersecurity. Responsibilities include hiring, managing, and guiding Solutions Architects, acting as a technical sponsor for strategic customers, advising on AI adoption strategies and use case scoping, and partnering with sales leadership to drive product adoption. The role requires deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments, along with strong pre-sales management experience. | Ship | 7 |
| 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 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — The Anthropic Institute Fellows (Economics & Policy) This is a research fellowship program focused on empirical projects related to AI's economic and societal impacts, with the goal of producing public outputs like research papers. Fellows will use external infrastructure and work with mentors to explore areas such as AI's economic effects, labor markets, and AI-enabled cyber/bio capabilities. | Data | 7 |
| Applied AI Architect, Commercial This role is a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping customers understand the value of Claude and how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. The role involves being a hands-on builder, creating reusable blueprints, demos, and enablement. Responsibilities include partnering with account executives, serving as the primary technical advisor, supporting customers building with the Claude API, shipping working code, building prototypes and proof-of-concepts, developing eval frameworks, writing near-production examples, building reusable blueprints and demos, guiding technical architecture decisions, helping customers integrate Claude, and helping customers develop evaluation frameworks. | Agent | 7 |
| Global Applied AI Architecture Lead, Beneficial Deployments Lead a global team of Applied AI Architects who partner with mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude, focusing on responsible and effective adoption to accelerate their missions. This role involves setting strategy, scaling the team, influencing product roadmaps, and representing Anthropic as a senior technical leader in high-impact partnerships. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack at Anthropic, focusing on building and scaling AI products for enterprise customers. This role involves end-to-end ownership of products like Claude.ai, the Anthropic API, enterprise deployments, and specialized industry applications. Responsibilities include developing developer tools, enhancing enterprise workflows with features like plugins and retrieval, ensuring security and compliance, and driving user growth and monetization. The role requires a product-oriented mindset and technical leadership across the full stack. | Agent | 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 |