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Staff Software Engineer: Compute in USA

  • Anthropic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build core systems tracking datacenter sites, designs, bills of materials, equipment, and construction progress.
  • Embed with datacenter, energy, and supply chain teams to understand workflows and build essential tools.
  • Migrate and reconcile spreadsheets and legacy trackers and integrate construction management, scheduling, and engineering systems.
  • Design fine-grained permissions, auditability, and data quality for high-impact investment information.
  • Ship early, iterate with users, and prioritize work that accelerates bringing compute online.
  • Partner with research to assess model capabilities in engineering-heavy, physical-world domains.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building software, with strong full-stack skills and grounding in data modeling, APIs, and databases.
  • Experience building software relied on by teams in a physical-world industry such as datacenters, construction, energy, manufacturing, supply chain, or logistics.
  • Track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments.
  • Strong user-centric approach, judgment, agency, and communication across engineering, operations, and research.
  • Experience with datacenters or adjacent fields such as construction, logistics, or legal is a strong plus.
  • Experience with tools such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Primavera P6, PLM/BOM, ERP and procurement, CAD/BIM, DCIM, or power system studies is a strong plus.
  • Background in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering, energy systems, or supply chain alongside software experience is a strong plus.
  • Experience building products with large language models is a strong plus.
  • Formal certifications, education credentials, and direct machine learning or AI research experience are not required.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $320,000–$485,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered with reasonable efforts made after an offer, although successful sponsorship is not possible for every role or candidate.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

Salary: $320k - $485k/yr

Anthropic

Anthropic builds AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable, with a commitment to ensuring their safety and benefit to users and society. Our work is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and policy experts focused on the development of beneficial AI solutions.

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