Software Engineer Anthropic Labs
Software Engineer Anthropic Labs
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$ 320000 - 560000
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About Anthropic
Anthropics 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.
About the role:
At Anthropic we believe new AI capabilities are best achieved through secure foundations not in spite of them. As capabilities grow more advanced it is critical that progress moves forward safely and for the benefit of all society. It is the reason why security sits at the center of our work and not as an afterthought.
Anthropic Labs is seeking versatile and collaborative Software Engineers to rapidly prototype and evaluate emerging AI capabilities from our research teams. As part of the Labs team you will work closely with researchers to validate the feasibility and product potential of cuttingedge AI breakthroughs build lightweight demos and generate learnings to inform Anthropics product roadmap.
About Anthropic Labs:
Anthropic Labs serves as an internal accelerator tasked with bridging the gap between research and product development. Our mandate is to identify paradigmshifting opportunities from research that could ship as products in a 612 month timeframe. We embed with research teams to provide product perspective build prototypes and pressure test assumptions. Successful projects will transition to product teams for launch.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute rapid experiments to test hypotheses about emerging AI capabilities with a focus on minimal viable testing approaches
- Balance creative exploration of possibilities with rigorous evaluation of feasibility and impact
- Build functional prototypes that demonstrate both technical viability and product potential
- Develop and refine prompting strategies to effectively leverage large language models
- Generate documentation to streamline handoff to product teams
- Advocate for product and usability considerations early in the research process
- Flexibly contribute to a range of Labs initiatives based on organizational priorities
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 5 years of software engineering industry experience
- Have strong technical skills across the stack and enjoy working on a variety of projects
- Are resultsoriented and maintain a usercentric approach to research
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with research teams
- Pick up slack even if it goes outside your job description
- Have experience designing and running structured experiments to validate technical and product hypotheses
- Can balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility)
- Have handson experience working with large language models and prompt engineering
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and can devise clear testing approaches to reduce uncertainty
- Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
- Building lightweight product prototypes and demos
- Working with large language models and related AI architectures
- Designing user flows wireframes or UI/UX for AIpowered applications
- Conducting user research interviews and usability testing
Candidates need not have:
- 100 of the skills needed to perform the job
- Formal certifications or education credentials
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$320000 $560000 USD
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Locationbased hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25 of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How were different
We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highestimpact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT3 CircuitBased Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Employment Type
Full Time
