Software Engineer, Public Sector
New Today
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. As an IC engineer on this team, you’ll solve unique challenges at the intersection of AI, public sector workflows, and mission-critical applications.
Core Responsibilities Understand public sector customer needs and translate them into technical and product solutions
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, etc.)
Develop automated compliance tooling and monitoring for government-specific security controls
Develop MCP integrations while maintaining strict security boundaries
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
You Might Be a Good Fit If You: Have 6+ years of practical experience as a software engineer
Have a strong technical background in fullstack product work
Have experience with identity management, SSO integration, and enterprise security standards
Have experience with government compliance frameworks
Have excellent collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively across functions
Have a track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software in production environments
Strong Candidates May Also Have: Experience with multi-tenant architecture and enterprise deployment models
Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
Experience partnering with sales and customer success teams
Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)
The expected salary range for this position is:
$405,000 - $485,000 USD
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 sponsor visas. If we offer you a position, we will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa and retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every qualification as listed. We think AI systems like the ones we’re building have enormous social and ethical implications and strive to include diverse perspectives on our team.
How we’re different We believe the highest-impact AI research is big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts and value impact over smaller problems. We are highly collaborative and value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research, which includes topics such as 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 collaborative office space. Our AI usage policy for applicants is part of the process.
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- Location:
- New York, NY, United States
- Salary:
- $200,000 - $250,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering