Staff Software Engineer, People Products

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
The People Products team exists to support Anthropic's mission by defining the blueprint for AI at work. We help hire the best person in the world for every job, ensure manager effectiveness, ramp new hires successfully, and apply first-principles thinking to how we shape Anthropic's culture through the tools we build. We cover the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to onboarding, teamwork, and promotions.

You'll work directly with Claude, with access to capabilities no external team has, on problems that are genuinely unsolved. You'll move fast: prototype to production in days or weeks. We believe in cross-functional thinkers who can reason across product, design, and engineering. You'll be given high autonomy, own your decisions, and ship constantly.

Responsibilities:

• Build full-stack end-to-end across the People Products portfolio.
• Design and implement AI-native workflows: build tools, evals, prompts, and products. You'll help define what is possible in applied AI for people processes.
• Work directly with internal stakeholders (HR teams, recruiters, managers) to understand problems, gather feedback, and iterate quickly.
• Make product and architecture decisions independently in a low-structure environment: knowing when to cut scope, when to ship, and when to ask for input.
• Contribute ideas for how the team works, what it builds, and where applied AI can have the most leverage in people workflows.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Derive joy from hard work and the act of creation.
• Have shipped LLM-native features or applications.
• Are experienced enough to build big features independently and make great architectural decisions.
• Are self-sufficient end-to-end: you can go from idea to production without needing a designer, PM, or architect to unblock you.
• Move fast without cutting corners.
• Engage directly with users and criticism.
• Are genuinely mission-driven about the intersection of AI and people practices.
• Are a collaborative, supportive teammate.

Strong candidates may also have:

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or prior experience building Claude or LLM integrations in production.
• Background at an AI-native company or in a product-focused 0-to-1 engineering environment.
• Experience with HR tech platforms such as Greenhouse, Workday, or Rippling.

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics:

• Location-based hybrid policy: we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. We can't 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.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space to collaborate with colleagues.