Staff Software Engineer, Search

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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 We're building Anthropic's search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude's ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up. Responsibilities: • Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch • Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality • Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency You may be a good fit if you: • 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production • Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking • Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages • Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures The annual…