Anthropic
Staff Software Engineer: Compute
$320K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years building software; the posting also states that required years correlate with internal job-level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience. Formal credentials are not required to be a strong candidate.
- 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 software and Claude-powered tools that help Anthropic’s datacenter, energy, and supply chain teams plan and deliver compute infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Develop a trusted, permissioned system for tracking datacenter sites, designs, equipment, and construction progress.
- Work with operations teams to understand their workflows, reconcile legacy data, and integrate relevant industry tools.
- Design for permissions, auditability, and data quality; ship and refine tools with users.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building software, with strong full-stack skills and grounding in data modeling, APIs, and databases.
- Experience building software relied on by teams in a physical-world industry.
- Track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments.
- User-centric approach and clear communication across engineering, operations, and research.
Nice to have
- Datacenter or adjacent-industry experience; familiarity with tools such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, or Primavera P6.
- Experience building products with large language models, or a relevant engineering, energy systems, or supply chain background.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Claude, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Primavera P6, PLM/BOM, ERP, CAD/BIM, DCIM
AI focus
Build Claude-powered tools for compute infrastructure work and partner with research to assess model capabilities in engineering-heavy, physical-world domains.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative