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Staff Software Engineer, Search

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · Lead / Staff / Principal

$320,000 – $405,000

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What this role is

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build their search platform from the ground up, enabling Claude to access and retrieve information at scale. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers who understand search fundamentals and want to work on core infrastructure in an AI research environment.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
  • Understanding of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, and ranking
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
  • Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and professional experience

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