Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

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

Anthropic is bringing Claude to democracies worldwide, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to build out our public sector engineering team. Engineers in this role will be working across the stack to scale our products from 0 to 1 and beyond.

While we’re looking for candidates with prior public sector experience, we are also excited about hiring product-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling products. There’s no shortage of things to build, so startup experience will help in maintaining a sharp focus and plotting an optimal path forward. This role is full-stack and entrepreneurial: you’ll own projects such as building out deployments for new government customers, implementing products to better surface critical information, and working directly with customers to understand how we can best leverage and adapt Claude to power their workflows.

You’d be joining at an exciting inflection point where we are evolving past deployments of basic Claude access for the public sector and toward cutting-edge AI capabilities and a comprehensive public sector experience. The projects the team tackles enables governments to deploy AI applications for their most critical operations—from national security to public services. As the team continues to grow, our focus includes delivering solutions that directly influence how democratic institutions deploy and use advanced AI systems.

Key responsibilities

Build specialized AI applications and products for governments by developing deep understanding of their processes and workflows

Take ownership of architecting new deployments and designing public sector specific features

Collaborate closely with research on AI models for government applications and workflows

Partner directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to translate requirements into technical and product roadmaps

Design and build scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls

Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

Minimum qualifications

Experience integrating and working with AI/ML models and understanding their capabilities

Strong technical background with proven success building and shipping enterprise or government-grade products

Have excellent collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively across functions

Preferred qualifications

• Have 8+ years of experience as a full s