Staff Software Engineer, Search
Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYOn-siteFull-time
About this role
<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We&39;re building Anthropic&39;s search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude&39;s ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you&39;ll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch&nbsp;</p> </li> <li> <p>Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality</p> </li> <li> <p>Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency</p> </li> </ul> <h2><strong>You may be a good fit if you:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>5+ years building complex distributed systems in production</p> </li> <li> <p>Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages</p> </li> <li> <p>Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures</p> </li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensatio