Staff Software Engineer, Search

<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><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We're building Anthropic's search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude's ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch&nbsp;</p> </li> <li> <p>Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality</p> </li> <li> <p>Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency</p> </li> </ul> <h2><strong>You may be a good fit if you:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>5+ years building complex distributed systems in production</p> </li> <li> <p>Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages</p> </li> <li> <p>Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures</p> </li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.&nbsp;</p> <p>For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Salary:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$1</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$2 USD</span></div></div></div>