Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

Anthropic is bringing Claude to the U.S. government and allied democracies, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to grow our public sector engineering team. This is a small team with large surface area. You’ll work across the stack to take products from 0 to 1 and beyond.

We are looking for product- and civic-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling great products. The opportunities outpace our ability to build them all, so the right candidate thrives on sharp judgment, prioritization, and focus. You’ll own work like:

Building Claude products that can be used by customers in highly regulated environments

Deploying Claude into government networks

Understanding and improving Claude’s usefulness in common government workflows – for example, policy research, benefits administration, intelligence analysis

Scaling and innovating Claude for Government, our existing product serving U.S. government customers today

Our team is filling a number of roles and is open to candidates with either full-stack or backend experience.

Key responsibilities

Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks

Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing deep understanding of how agencies actually operate

Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases

Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps

Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments

Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

Minimum qualifications

Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations

A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products

Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills — you’ll partner with sales, legal, research, and policy teams alike

Preferred qualifications

Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software engineer

Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one