MP
$405,000 – $485,000
Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This Staff role leads technical strategy for evaluation and infrastructure systems on Anthropic's Claude Code team, partnering researchers and engineers to measure and improve AI coding capabilities. It suits someone with 10+ years building high-scale systems who thrives mentoring others and operating at the boundary between engineering and AI research.
Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Track record as Staff or Principal engineer at a high-caliber organization
- Architected and owned complex, high-stakes systems serving multiple teams
- History of setting technical direction through design and architecture
- Ownership of ambiguous problems with minimal direction
- Power user of agentic coding tools
- Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly
- Commitment to correctness and reliability
Nice to have
- Experience designing or scaling evaluation frameworks for ML systems
- Reinforcement learning infrastructure or training systems experience
- Leadership in high-performance, demanding environments
- Research computing or developer platforms at scale
- Strong quantitative foundation in math or physics