Staff Software Engineer, Labs: Applied AI

<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><h3>About the role</h3> <p>At Anthropic, we're building AI systems that are safe, beneficial, and transformative. Our mission is to develop AI that benefits humanity, and we believe the most powerful capabilities emerge when we thoughtfully bridge the gap between research breakthroughs and real-world applications.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Applied AI is one of the newest explorations within Anthropic Labs, the internal accelerator behind Claude Code, MCP, and Claude Design. Most of the world's work happens far from a code editor, and the people doing it have barely begun to feel what frontier AI can do. We believe Claude has a transformative role to play here — and we're at the earliest stage of exploring what that could look like. The engineers who join now will define where it goes.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We're looking for versatile, entrepreneurial engineers who are energized by building for users unlike themselves. In this role, you'll take frontier AI capabilities and turn them into applications that professionals in less software-native roles can pick up and trust — rapidly building and testing new experiences, partnering directly with researchers, domain experts, and users, and generating the insights that shape where this exploration goes next. You'll need to be comfortable with ambiguity, willing to kill your own projects when the data says to, and energized by the pace of building in uncharted territory.</p> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li> <p>Rapidly prototype full-stack applications that bring frontier AI into workflows that have never been software-first, shippi