This role is part of Anthropic Labs, an internal accelerator focused on transforming research breakthroughs into real‑world applications. As a software engineer, you will prototype full‑stack AI‑enabled products, collaborate with research teams, gather user feedback, design experiments, and help turn prototypes into production products. You will work closely with researchers and product teams, advocate for user experience, and contribute across lab initiatives.
Software Engineer, Labs at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA
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USD 320,000 - 485,000
Requirements
Skills
- 8+ years of experience building full-stack applications
- Zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and uncertainty
- Hacker mentality: high agency, bias toward shipping, comfort with technical debt when appropriate
- Strong user‑centric focus: validate ideas with actual users before over‑investing
- Ability to articulate learnings from failed or killed projects without defensiveness
- Strong opinions loosely and willingness to change based on evidence
- Generalist capable of transitioning between problem spaces as priorities shift
- Independent with good judgment about what matters, without needing constant direction
- Strong technical skills across modern web development stacks (React, Node.js, Python, etc.) and comfortable with APIs, databases, and cloud technologies
- Effective communication skills for translating complex AI capabilities into intuitive experiences
- Concern for societal impacts and ethics of work
Responsibilities
- Rapidly prototype full‑stack applications that showcase emerging AI capabilities and ship early and often to maximize learning
- Collaborate closely with research teams to understand new model capabilities and translate them into intuitive user experiences
- Work directly with internal test users and external partners to gather feedback, iterate quickly, and validate or invalidate product concepts
- Design and run structured experiments to test hypotheses, balancing creative exploration with rigorous evaluation
- Generate documentation and insights to guide successful prototypes toward full product teams
- Advocate for user experience and product considerations early in the research process
- Provide feedback to research teams about model effectiveness and where capabilities can be improved
- Flexibly contribute across Labs initiatives based on organizational priorities and emerging opportunities
Technologies
ReactNode.jsPythonAPIsdatabasescloud technologies
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