# Staff Software Engineer, Education

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, Databases, APIs, Authentication, Infrastructure, SAML, OAuth, open badges, lti, LLMs, SSO
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Build and own Anthropic’s AI-native education platform, including backend infrastructure, adaptive learning systems, credentialing, integrations, and enterprise readiness. The role requires strong full-stack skills with backend depth and at least seven years of software engineering experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Architect and own Anthropic’s enterprise-ready education platform and infrastructure, including authentication/SSO, learner data models, content delivery, credentialing, and progress tracking.
- Own the technical vision for AI-driven educational experiences, determining what to build, extend, or replace as needs evolve.
- Build AI-augmented pipelines for content generation, real-time adaptation, assessment delivery, and quality assurance.
- Design adaptive learning paths, competency-based progression, and AI-evaluated demonstrations of skill.
- Interface with security, infrastructure, and data teams to meet organizational standards and integrate with existing architecture.
- Build platform abstractions that let non-engineers configure, extend, and experiment with educational experiences.
- Make product-level decisions that shape the learning experience.

## Requirements

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to take a platform from zero to production at scale.
- Genuine passion for education and strong opinions about AI-native educational technology.
- Strong understanding of educational content and the systems that produce it.
- Full-stack engineering skills, particularly backend systems, databases, APIs, authentication, reliability, and infrastructure.
- Experience building and operating platforms that reliably serve many concurrent users.
- Comfort translating pedagogical intent into technical architecture amid ambiguity.
- Experience working with security and infrastructure teams while maintaining development velocity.
- Experience using AI tools in engineering workflows and curiosity about AI-native education platforms.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience building learning platforms, credentialing systems, or educational technology products.
- Background in or exposure to learning science, instructional design, or educational research.
- Experience with SSO and identity systems, including SAML and OAuth.
- Familiarity with Open Badges or LTI integrations.
- Experience building systems that incorporate LLM capabilities as core infrastructure.
- Experience at a high-growth company building platform infrastructure used by other teams.
- Experience designing systems configured and operated by non-technical users.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual salary range: **$320,000–$405,000 USD**.
- Minimum education: bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Anthropic sponsors visas for eligible roles and candidates.
- Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.

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