Software Engineer, Anthropic Labs

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Requirements:

• Strong technical skills across the stack and enjoy working on various projects.
• Results-oriented with a user-centric approach to research.
• Effective communication and collaboration with research teams.
• Experience in designing and running structured experiments to validate technical and product hypotheses.
• Ability to balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility).
• Hands-on experience with large language models and prompt engineering.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to devise clear testing approaches to reduce uncertainty.
• Concern for the societal impacts and ethics of work.

Responsibilities:

• Design and execute rapid experiments to test hypotheses about emerging AI capabilities, focusing on minimal viable testing approaches.
• Balance creative exploration of possibilities with rigorous evaluation of feasibility and impact.
• Build functional prototypes demonstrating technical viability and product potential.
• Develop and refine prompting strategies to leverage large language models.
• Generate documentation to streamline hand-off to product teams.
• Advocate for product and usability considerations early in the research process.
• Flexibly contribute to a range of Labs initiatives based on organizational priorities.