Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $320K–$405K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 1 month ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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…
About the Role
The Encodings Infra team maintains the libraries that engineers and researchers across Anthropic use to encode text and multimodal data into a form that Claude can consume. It also determines Claude’s prompt shape: how a user’s turn is represented to the…
Responsibilities
Maintain and improve the encoding libraries used by engineers and researchers across Anthropic Run experiments to determine the optimal way to feed structured data into Claude without confusing it Design data structures and abstractions that shield most of…
You may be a good fit if you
Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent maintaining libraries, SDKs, or developer-facing APIs Have familiarity with ML terminology and LLM architecture — you don't need to be an ML expert, but enough understanding to work…
Representative projects
Working with a research team to ship a new multimodal data type (audio, video, etc) to production Redesigning a core abstraction so that we can change how data is encoded into Claude without breaking downstream teams The annual compensation range for this…
Logistics
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…
Logistics
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How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work…
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 lovely office space in which to…
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