Software Engineer, Public Sector

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:

Were looking for experienced software engineers to join our Public Sector Engineering team as a key part of our Claude for Government initiative.

This role requires strong expertise in developing enterprise software solutions with exceptional security compliance and scalability standards. Youll be responsible for building features that meet the needs of public sector customers.

Youll play a critical role in enabling federal agencies to leverage Claude safely and effectively working on everything from FedRAMPcompliant infrastructure to specialized models for government use cases.

Responsibilities:

• Work with legal and compliance teams to ensure all engineering practices meet government requirements
• Design and implement infrastructure solutions that meet federal compliance requirements (FedRAMP High IL5)
• Develop automated compliance tooling and monitoring for governmentspecific security controls
• Create identity management solutions including SSO integration and rolebased access controls
• Implement security features such as audit logs encryption and compliance frameworks
• Design and build scalable systems for enterprise deployment user management and administrative controls
• Collaborate with product teams to understand enterprise customer needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Build industryspecific solutions to meet the needs of users across public sector

You might be a good fit if you:

• 6 years of practical experience as a software engineer
• Strong technical background in backend development
• Experience with identity management SSO integration and enterprise security standards
• Familiarity with government compliance frameworks
• Excellent collaboration skills with ability to work effectively across functions
• Track record of delivering highquality scalable software in production environments

Strong candidates may also have:

• Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)
• Experience working directly with federal agencies (DoD IC or civilian)
• Experience with multitenant architecture and enterprise deployment models
• Startup experience particularly in scaling products from zero to one
• Knowledge of enterprise billing systems and seat management
• Experience partnering with sales and customer success teams
• Experience delivering software to government networks
• An active security clearance

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.