Staff+ Software Engineer, VectorDB
Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle
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- Company
- Anthropic
- Location
- New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle
- Salary
- $320,000 — $485,000
- Posted
- October 20, 2026
About this job
About the role Anthropic is looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to work on the vector search infrastructure behind Claude. Retrieval is how Claude learns about the world. Web search across claude.ai, the API and agentic surfaces, memory across conversations, and the reinforcement learning workloads that train our next models all depend on fast, cheap, high-recall nearest-neighbor search over billions of vectors. You'll join a small team responsible for the vector database layer that serves Claude's retrieval workloads: its architecture, performance, scalability and cost. This is a foundational role. The team is small, core architectural decisions are still open, and the engineers who join now will shape how the system evolves.…
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