About the company
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
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Conditions
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
- Annual Salary: $1 — $2 USD
- We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.