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Staff+ Software Engineer, Memory & Search

Anthropic · New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Remote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | New York City,... · Remote

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About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

Anthropic is looking for Software Engineers to join the Memory & Search team. We own how Claude remembers you and how it finds what it needs, across Claude.ai, Cowork and Claude Code. That spans the user-facing experience (what Claude remembers, how people see and edit it, how search surfaces the right conversation) and the shared infrastructure underneath it, the memory service, indexing, retrieval and vector search. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building and operating user-facing products used by a large number of people, including the backend services behind them
  • Experience building agentic systems or LLM-powered products, including tool use, retrieval and prompt or context design
  • Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript, with experience across backend services and web front ends
  • A track record of taking a product or feature from an idea to launch, and iterating on it based on usage data and user feedback
  • Experience defining product metrics and running experiments to make decisions
  • Strong product judgment: you notice when something feels off and you fix it, and you can explain why a design choice matters to users
More about this role

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.

Anthropic is looking for Software Engineers to join the Memory & Search team. We own how Claude remembers you and how it finds what it needs, across Claude.ai, Cowork and Claude Code. That spans the user-facing experience (what Claude remembers, how people see and edit it, how search surfaces the right conversation) and the shared infrastructure underneath it, the memory service, indexing, retrieval and vector search.

Memory is one of the biggest levers on whether Claude feels like it knows you. We recently moved memory from a periodically synthesized summary to a dynamic, editable, on-demand system, and then unified it so the same memory follows you across products. Search went from a top user complaint to something people rely on to find past work. The platform is now in place, and the next phase is finding the product form factors that make memory the most...

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