Software Engineer, Public Sector

About Anthropic

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.

About the Role

We’re 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. As an IC engineer on this team, you’ll solve unique challenges at the intersection of AI, public sector workflows, and mission-critical applications.

Core Responsibilities

• Understand public sector customer needs and translate them into technical and product solutions
• 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, etc.)
• Develop automated compliance tooling and monitoring for government-specific security controls
• Develop MCP integrations while maintaining strict security boundaries
• Create identity management solutions, including SSO integration and role-based 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

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The expected salary range for this position is :

$405,000 - $485,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements : We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based 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 sponsor visas. If we offer you a position, we will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa and retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every qualification as listed. We think AI systems like the ones we’re building have enormous social and ethical implications and strive to include diverse perspectives on our team.

How we’re different

We believe the highest-impact AI research is big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts and value impact over smaller problems. We are highly collaborative and value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research, which includes topics such as GPT-3, Circuit-Based 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 collaborative office space. Our AI usage policy for applicants is part of the process.

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