Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY / San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, California, United States2026-05-04

About the job

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.

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

Qualifications

Minimum

Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack software engineer

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

Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one

Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption

Experience delivering software to government networks

Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)