Staff Software Engineer (NC)

ABOUT ODE WITH ANTHROPIC

How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?

Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.

We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.

We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.

We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.

 

THE ROLE

This role is designed for former engineering leaders (IC or EM) or founders who are comfortable owning end-to-end technical outcomes but specifically want to continue being impactful as individual contributors and spend more time in the code.

 

You'll work on a small, high-caliber team (2–5 engineers and a PM) building AI products for our clients. You'll set technical direction, write code, and be the person the team looks to when something is hard.

 

You'll spend roughly 75% of your time in code and 25% working directly with clients — often their CTOs — understanding problems, walking through tradeoffs, and making sure what we’re building meets their needs.

 

Most engineers take a decade to see this range of hard problems across this many domains. Here, you'll do it in your first year. To make this possible, we are religious about being the best company in the world to learn Applied AI engineering practices.

 

WHAT YOU BRING

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