Anthropic
Software Engineer, Public Sector
Job Summary
This role involves developing enterprise software solutions with a focus on security, compliance, and scalability to serve public sector clients, including federal agencies. The successful candidate will work on infrastructure design, automation, security features, and identity management systems aligned with government standards like FedRAMP. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend development, security, and enterprise deployment, with added preferences for those with federal security clearances or experience working with government agencies. The position emphasizes collaboration, impact-driven work in AI safety, and offers a range of employee benefits.
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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:
We're looking for experienced software engineers to join our Public Sector Engineering team as a key part of our Claude for Government initiative.
This role requires strong expertise in developing enterprise software solutions with exceptional security, compliance, and scalability standards. You'll be responsible for building features that meet the needs of public sector customers.
You'll play a critical role in enabling federal agencies to leverage Claude safely and effectively, working on everything from FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure to specialized models for government use cases.
Responsibilities:
- Work with legal and compliance teams to ensure all engineering practices meet government requirements
- Design and implement infrastructure solutions that meet federal compliance requirements (FedRAMP High, IL5)
- Develop automated compliance tooling and monitoring for government-specific security controls
- Create identity management solutions, including SSO integration and role-based access controls
- Implement security features such as audit logs, encryption, and compliance frameworks
- Design and build scalable systems for enterprise deployment, user management, and administrative controls
- Collaborate with product teams to understand enterprise customer needs and translate them into technical solutions
- Build industry-specific solutions to meet the needs of users across public sector
You might be a good fit if you:
- 6+ years of practical experience as a software engineer
- Strong technical background in backend development
- Experience with identity management, SSO integration, and enterprise security standards
- Familiarity with government compliance frameworks
- Excellent collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively across functions
- Track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software in production environments
Strong candidates may also have:
- Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)
- Experience working directly with federal agencies (DoD, IC, or civilian)
- Experience with multi-tenant architecture and enterprise deployment models
- Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
- Knowledge of enterprise billing systems and seat management
- Experience partnering with sales and customer success teams
- Experience delivering software to government networks
- An active security clearance
The expected salary range for this position is:
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to 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, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
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 a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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