# Model Quality Software Engineer, Claude Code

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Evaluation Frameworks, Reinforcement Learning, Data Pipelines, Research Infrastructure, Scientific Computing
**Posted:** 2026-02-12

> Software Engineer on Claude Code team builds evaluation systems, tooling, and infrastructure to enhance AI coding capabilities. Collaborates with researchers in fast-paced environment; requires 5+ years experience building complex systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Design and build eval systems that measure model capabilities across diverse coding tasks
- Build tooling and infrastructure that enables researchers to run experiments at scale
- Develop pipelines for data collection, processing, and analysis
- Create internal tools that improve researcher productivity and accelerate iteration cycles
- Serve as a bridge between product and research—bring strong product intuition to inform which capabilities matter most
- Work closely with researchers to translate research questions into engineering solutions
- Own systems end-to-end—from design through production reliability

## You may be a good fit if you:

- Have built and owned complex systems—pipelines, infrastructure, or software that orchestrates many components and handles significant state and logic
- Thrive in high-intensity environments with fast iteration cycles
- Take full ownership of problems and drive them to completion independently
- Are a power user of agentic coding tools and have strong intuition about model capabilities and limitations
- Are comfortable diving into unfamiliar technical domains and figuring things out quickly
- Care deeply about correctness and reliability in the systems you build
- Are excited to work at the boundary between engineering and AI research
- Have at least 5 years of work experience

## Strong candidates may also have experience with:

- Writing or maintaining eval/evaluation frameworks
- Reinforcement learning systems
- Working in high-performance, demanding environments—trading firms, quant funds, competitive research labs, or fast-moving startups where intensity is the norm
- Have research computing or scientific infrastructure background
- Have a strong quantitative foundation (math, physics, or related fields)
- Python and TypeScript

## Logistics

**Education requirements:** We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

**Location-based hybrid policy:** Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

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