Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff+ Software Engineer at Anthropic will focus on developing the Claude Science platform, which integrates various tools for scientific research into a cohesive environment. The position requires extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in building AI products and translating scientific needs into technical solutions. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software leadership and a familiarity with scientific domains, enabling them to collaborate effectively with researchers. Anthropic emphasizes a collaborative culture, aiming to accelerate scientific progress through innovative AI applications.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page November 3, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
Starts above 89% of 55 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $244,000 across 22 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
AI/ML appears in 34.3% of 283 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science role remote?: It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY.
What's the salary range?: Anthropic lists $405,000–$485,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science role.
Where is the role based?: Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML.
Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?: Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?: Anthropic targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the role

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We believe powerful AI can compress a century of scientific progress into a decade. Claude Science is a big part of building toward that future.

Claude Science is an AI workbench that gives researchers a single environment for work that today spans dozens of disconnected tools — literature, specialized databases, scientific computing, analysis, and publication-ready outputs. Claude Science already renders protein structures, genome tracks, and chemical structures natively, and coordinates multi-agent workflows with built-in review for citation and calculation errors — and we’re just getting started. Much of this is being built 0→1 right now: you’ll shape both the product and the architecture in a category no one has defined yet.

You'll be a technical leader who thinks holistically about the end-to-end researcher experience, partners directly with our internal research team to push model capabilities into production, and carries real ownership over what we ship next.

Our north star is accelerating scientific progress — across biology, chemistry, physics, and beyond — from early discovery through real-world application, by an order of magnitude. This work supports programs like Anthropic’s AI for Science Program and our rare disease research grants.

What you'll do

Ship fast against a roadmap you help shape: this is a product in a category no one has defined yet, and the highest-leverage problems are still unclaimed
Interface directly with working scientists — academic labs, industry R&D teams, and research institutes — during key conversations, translating what you learn into engineering priorities
Partner with product and design to turn how scientists actually work — from hypothesis to analysis to publication — into shipped product
Work closely with research to make the models better at science: shaping evals, surfacing failure modes, and feeding what users hit in the real world back into model development

You may be a good fit if you

Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with 2+ years at a Staff or equivalent technical leadership level
Have built products from 0 to 1 in fast-moving environments, and can set technical direction with limited precedent to lean on
Have built AI products and know what it takes to turn model capabilities into applications people actually use
Are comfortable working directly with technical domain experts and translating what you learn
Drive cross-team alignment to ship impactful work, with influence over authority

Strong candidates may also have

Background in chemistry, biology, physics, or another science
Experience working with research teams to improve domain-specific model capabilities, including evaluation frameworks

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:

$405,000—$485,000 USD

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Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science