Staff+ Software Engineer, Vertical AI Products

About the role

Join Anthropic's Verticals team to develop specialized AI products for key industries like finance, science, and healthcare. Many of these initiatives are starting from scratch, offering a chance to shape product and architectural decisions in new markets. For established products, you'll contribute to rapid growth with existing enterprise clients.

Key facts

Team:

Claude for Financial Services: Develops integrated AI solutions for investment banking, asset management, insurance, and corporate finance, working closely with enterprise customers and research.

Claude Science: Enhances Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, focusing on engineering for a rapidly expanding live product.

Claude for Healthcare: Builds foundational AI products for payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies, aiming to improve health outcomes.

Enterprise AI Products: Creates essential tools for enterprise-wide Claude adoption, including plugins, skills, shared context, user management, security, compliance, and analytics.

What you'll do

• Lead technical design and delivery for a core vertical or enterprise product component, covering the entire stack.
• Collaborate with research to improve models for your domain, identifying issues and integrating customer feedback.
• Partner with product, design, and go-to-market teams to translate enterprise workflows into delivered products.
• Define technical standards for your team, including architecture and code quality.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers and sales to inform engineering priorities.
• Mentor other engineers and elevate the team's technical capabilities through influence.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a Staff or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Experience leading the design and delivery of complex enterprise or B2B full-stack products.
• Background in building AI products and converting model capabilities into usable applications.
• Comfort interacting with enterprise customers and translating insights into technical decisions.
• History of building products from inception in dynamic environments, setting technical direction with limited precedents.
• Ability to drive cross-team alignment for impactful work, using influence rather than direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience collaborating with research to enhance domain-specific model capabilities, including evaluation frameworks.
• Deep knowledge in financial services (investment banking, asset management, insurance, corporate finance), scientific research (computational biology), healthcare (clinical operations, health systems, payers), or enterprise platform development.
• Exposure to both product-led growth and direct enterprise sales strategies.

Skills & tools

• Full-stack development
• AI product development
• Enterprise software architecture
• Technical leadership
• Customer engagement

Practical notes

• Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Anthropic operates a hybrid policy, requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time, with some roles potentially requiring more.
• Visa sponsorship is available; Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to secure visas for successful candidates.
• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation offering competitive compensation, benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, parental leave, and flexible hours.
• Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet every qualification.