Job brief: Staff Software Engineer: Compute

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-05.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $320,000 to $485,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-09-23

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• Have 8+ years of experience building software, with strong full-stack skills and solid grounding in data modeling, APIs, and databases
• Formal certifications or education credentials
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Conditions

• We're looking for strong, versatile software engineers who love building for people doing real work in the physical world.
• Partner with research to understand new model capabilities and share where they fall short in engineering-heavy, physical-world domains
• Have built software that teams in a physical-world industry depend on, such as datacenters, construction, energy, manufacturing, supply chain, or logistics
• 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.

Main duties

• Build the core systems that track a datacenter's lifecycle (sites, designs, bills of materials, equipment, and construction progress) in one trusted, permiss…
• Embed with datacenter, energy, and supply chain teams to understand how the work actually gets done, find the critical path, and build the tools they reach f…
• Bring order to messy data by migrating and reconciling spreadsheets and legacy trackers, and integrate with the industry's tools, like construction managemen…
• Design for trust: fine-grained permissions, auditability, and data quality for information that steers major investment decisions
• Ship early, iterate with users, and cut anything that doesn't help bring compute online sooner

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• Across Anthropic's 546 open listings, 53% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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