Staff+ Software Engineer, VectorDB is open at Anthropic in New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA. The posting gives a salary of $320K - $485K. Posted on Oct 20, 2026, and still on Anthropic’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
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…
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