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Staff Software Engineer, Search

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · On-site

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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

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. Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch

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.

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.

Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch

Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality

Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency

5+ years building complex distributed systems in production

Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking

Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages

Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures

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