Anthropic
Senior Engineer, Bioinformatics
$300K–$320K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job level; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience. Graduate degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration-lawyer support.
About the job
Build, release, and maintain trusted biology software for genomics and structural biology, while representing the work to the research community.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain research software, including libraries, command-line tools, pipelines, datasets, and benchmarks.
- Own software releases, including testing, validation, benchmarking, documentation, packaging, and ongoing maintenance.
- Work with scientists and the biology community; guide technical direction and use AI coding agents in development and review.
What they ask for
- Have released and maintained biology software adopted by researchers outside your own group.
- Have deep expertise in genomics or structural biology and proficiency in Python.
- Be comfortable with large datasets, Linux, and cloud or cluster computing; practice rigorous testing and release engineering.
- Have led a multi-contributor technical project, use AI coding tools centrally, and communicate clearly with biologists and engineers.
Nice to have
- Expertise in both genomics and structural biology, or a record creating or maintaining widely used computational biology open-source software.
- Experience leading a team, using systems languages or optimizing performance, or building AI- or machine-learning-based biological software.
Pay
$300,000 — $320,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Linux, Claude, Rust, C++, C
AI focus
Use Claude and AI coding agents throughout software design, implementation, testing, and review; verify the correctness and performance of agent-written code. Experience with agentic systems or training machine-learning models on biological data is preferred.
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