Full-Time
Software Engineer
Research Tools
Updated on 9/4/2026
Anthropic
5,001-10,000 employees
Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems
Compensation Overview
$300k - $405k/yr
H1B Sponsorship Available
Seattle, WA, USA + 2 more
More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Staff must work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
Bachelor's
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- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack development.
- Have experience building tools, platforms, or infrastructure for technical users such as engineers, researchers, data scientists, or analysts.
- Demonstrate high agency and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.
- Be able to quickly develop a deep understanding of complex technical domains.
- Have strong product instincts and be able to identify the right problems to solve.
- Be proficient with modern web technologies including React, TypeScript, and Python.
- Have a track record of building user-facing applications that are used by their target audience.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Have a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Have a field of study relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Build and maintain full-stack applications and infrastructure used by researchers to conduct experiments, collect feedback, and analyze results.
- Partner with research teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and requirements, and translate these into technical solutions.
- Design intuitive interfaces and abstractions that make complex research tasks accessible and efficient.
- Create reusable platforms and tools that accelerate development of new research applications.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions by gathering user feedback and refining based on real-world usage.
- Take ownership of complete product areas from understanding user needs through design, implementation, and ongoing iteration.
- Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for research tooling.
- Mentor other engineers and help establish best practices for research application development.
- Experience building research tools, scientific software, or experimentation platforms.
- Background in machine learning, AI research, or working closely with machine learning researchers.
- Having founded or been an early engineer at a startup, particularly one focused on developer or researcher tools.
- Having built open-source tools or platforms with active user communities.
- Experience with data visualization, interactive interfaces, or novel interaction paradigms.
- Experience contributing to engineering platforms or internal tooling at scale, similar to Heroku or Vercel.
- Experience leveraging artificial intelligence or large language models to build more powerful or efficient tools.
- Previous work in creative tools, artist tools, or other domains requiring deep user empathy.
- Domain knowledge in human-computer interaction, systems safety, or AI alignment.
Anthropic focuses on AI research to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its main product, Claude, is an AI assistant designed to handle tasks at any scale for clients across industries, delivered through deployment and licensing along with specialized AI R&D services. Claude works by combining natural language processing, human feedback, reinforcement learning, and interpretability techniques to produce a capable, controllable AI assistant that can assist with a wide range of tasks. The company differentiates itself from competitors by prioritizing safety, transparency, and controllability—emphasizing reliability, interpretability of model behavior, and user-controlled steerability in its AI systems. Anthropic’s goal is to make AI systems that people can trust and efficiently use to improve operations and decision-making across sectors.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$182.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Project Glasswing found over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities by June 2, 2026.
- Anthropic disclosed annualized revenue above $65 billion in July 2026, signaling explosive demand.
- September 1, 2026 pricing cuts for cache reads boost agentic API adoption and retention.
What critics are saying
- Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, approved July 20, 2026, invites more suits.
- Late-September 2026 IPO pressure exposes weak multiples if growth decelerates after listing.
- Heavy compute commitments and chip-lease debt create existential financing risk if demand softens.
What makes Anthropic unique
- Claude Security and Project Glasswing anchor Anthropic’s enterprise security moat in 2026.
- Anthropic pairs frontier-model capability with explicit safety branding, unlike OpenAI’s consumer-first posture.
- Multi-cloud distribution across AWS, Google, Microsoft, Lambda, and Nscale reduces single-vendor dependence.
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Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
Parental Leave
Hybrid Work Options
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↑ 2%Broadcom could capture a $40 billion opportunity from Anthropic's growing compute needs, according to Macquarie analyst Arthur Lai. This comes as concerns mount over Google developing more chips internally, potentially threatening Broadcom's custom silicon business. The stock has fallen approximately 24% from its all-time high. However, Lai suggests many concerns may already be priced in, creating an attractive entry point. In April, Anthropic partnered with Google and Broadcom to secure next-generation TPU capacity for training its Claude AI models. Broadcom's AI semiconductor revenue surged 221% year-over-year to $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3 2026. Management projects AI semiconductor revenue could reach $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and potentially $230 billion in fiscal 2028. The Anthropic partnership could provide crucial revenue visibility whilst strengthening Broadcom's position in custom AI silicon and networking.
Black Duck has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, an industry initiative aimed at securing critical software infrastructure using advanced AI for defensive cybersecurity. The application security company will apply Mythos, Anthropic's AI system, across its full security portfolio. This will combine AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery with remediation workflows, risk-based prioritisation, and compliance-driven governance. "AI is transforming the economics and speed of vulnerability discovery and exploit development," said Dipto Chakravarty, Black Duck's Chief Product & Technology Officer. He explained that pairing Mythos with Black Duck's existing capabilities will enable faster risk reduction whilst maintaining the transparency and auditability required by enterprise security teams. Black Duck specialises in application security, combining deterministic analysis with AI reasoning to identify and fix security issues in code written by developers, generated by AI, or assembled from open source.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have asked major credit rating agencies to grant investment-grade status to OpenAI and Anthropic upon going public, despite neither company turning a profit, the Financial Times reported. OpenAI posted a $20.9 billion operating loss on $13.1 billion revenue in 2025. Anthropic doesn't expect to break even until 2028, with OpenAI targeting 2030. The investment-grade designation would allow pension funds and insurers to buy their bonds. It would also terminate Nvidia's guarantee of up to $105 billion in lease obligations for OpenAI's Ohio campus. Rating analysts currently describe both labs as speculative-grade and loss-making. When SpaceX received investment-grade ratings after its June IPO, its bonds traded near junk pricing within days. Anthropic could list in late September, whilst OpenAI targets 2027.
Interactive Brokers held $182.4 billion in uninvested client cash at the end of June, up 27% year over year, and this figure grew to $185.6 billion by August. The automated global broker earns interest on this cash by investing it in short-term US government securities whilst paying clients a rate half a percentage point below the federal funds rate. Net interest income rose 23% year over year to $1.06 billion in the second quarter, representing more than half of total net revenues of $1.9 billion. The growth came from larger balances rather than margins, which actually narrowed to 1.93% from 2.07%. Anthropic's potential IPO, rumoured to arrive soon with a possible $2 trillion valuation, could provide clients with an opportunity to deploy some of this cash.
Anthropic has reportedly secured a $35 billion cloud deal with Lambda for 350 MW of capacity at Hut 8's Beacon Point campus in Texas, marking its ninth major compute corridor. The arrangement highlights Nvidia's dual role as both GPU supplier and data centre landlord, allowing it to extract value at multiple levels. The deal supports Anthropic's $65 billion annualised revenue run rate but deepens its reliance on Nvidia's ecosystem. Anthropic has diversified across nine corridors, including commitments to AWS (5GW), Google/Broadcom (5GW), Microsoft/Nvidia ($30 billion), Fluidstack ($50 billion), Nscale ($45 billion), Volta ($10 billion), AMD ($5 billion), and SpaceX (300MW). This infrastructure strategy reflects a shift where GPU suppliers increasingly control both hardware and physical environments, positioning themselves as compute landlords.