Software Developer Jobs at Anthropic with Visa Sponsorship
Software Developer jobs at Anthropic sit at the core of the company's mission to build AI systems that push the boundaries of safety research. The company sponsors work visas for this function, including H-1B visa, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visa, making it a real option for international candidates with the right technical background.
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About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role
Data Infrastructure designs, operates, and scales secure, privacy-respecting systems that power data-driven decisions across Anthropic. Our mission is to provide data processing, storage, and access that are trusted, fast, and easy to use. We're looking for infrastructure engineers who thrive working at the intersection of data systems, security, and scalability. You'll tackle diverse challenges ranging from building financial reporting pipelines to architecting access control systems to ensuring cloud storage reliability.
Responsibilities
Within Data Infra, you may be matched to critical business areas including:
- Data Governance & Access Control: Design and implement robust access control systems ensuring only authorized users can access sensitive data. Build infrastructure for permission management, audit logging, and compliance requirements. Work on IAM policies, ACLs, and security controls that scale across thousands of users and systems.
- Financial Data Infrastructure: Build and maintain data pipelines and warehouses powering business-critical reporting. Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and availability for complex financial systems, including third party revenue ingestion pipelines; manage the external relationships as needed to drive upstream dependencies. Own the reliability of systems processing revenue, usage, and business metrics.
- Cloud Storage & Reliability: Architect disaster recovery, backup, and replication systems for petabyte-scale data. Ensure high availability and durability of data stored in cloud object storage (GCS, S3). Build systems that protect against data loss and enable rapid recovery.
- Data Platform & Tooling: Scale data processing infrastructure using technologies like BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, dbt, and Spark. Optimize query performance, manage costs, and enable self-service analytics across the organization.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
- Have 10+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience in a Software Engineer role, building data infrastructure, storage systems, or related distributed systems
- Have 3+ years (not including internships or co-ops) of experience leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
- Have deep experience with at least one of:
- Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
- Can navigate complex technical tradeoffs between performance, cost, security, and maintainability
- Have excellent collaboration skills - you work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience with security and compliance requirements (ITGC, GDPR, financial controls)
- Background in data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, or analytics infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures
- Track record of improving data reliability, availability, or cost efficiency at scale
- Knowledge of column-oriented databases, OLAP systems, or big data processing frameworks
- Experience working in fintech, financial services, or highly regulated environments
- Security engineering background with focus on data protection and access controls
Technologies We Use
- Data: BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, Cloud Composer, dbt, Spark, Segment, Fivetran
- Storage: GCS, S3
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
- Languages: Python, Go, SQL
Deadline to apply:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$405,000—$485,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
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.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Align your portfolio to AI safety work
Anthropic's engineering work centers on large language model development and safety research. Before applying, make sure your GitHub or project portfolio shows experience with ML infrastructure, distributed systems, or model evaluation, not just general software engineering.
Target roles that match your specialty occupation
For H-1B approval, USCIS must classify your role as a specialty occupation requiring a specific degree. Software Developer positions at an AI research company like Anthropic typically satisfy this, but your job title and described duties on the petition need to match your actual work closely.
Confirm E-3 eligibility before the interview stage
If you hold Australian citizenship, the E-3 visa bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely. Anthropic sponsors E-3, so flag your citizenship early in the recruiter screen so the hiring team routes your offer through the correct sponsorship process from the start.
Request your LCA certification timeline upfront
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with the DOL before USCIS can receive your H-1B petition. DOL targets a seven-business-day turnaround, but building buffer time into your start date negotiation avoids pressure if processing runs long.
Use Migrate Mate to filter Anthropic openings by visa type
Anthropic posts Software Developer roles across multiple teams and seniority levels at any given time. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for positions that match your sponsored visa category so you apply to openings where your authorization path is already confirmed.
Prepare degree equivalency documentation before offer stage
Anthropic recruits internationally, and USCIS requires your foreign degree to be evaluated as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's or higher in a relevant field. Commission a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization before you receive an offer so there's no delay in petition preparation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Anthropic sponsor H-1B visas for Software Developers?
Yes, Anthropic sponsors H-1B visas for Software Developer roles. Because the H-1B is subject to an annual lottery, your petition must be registered in the March selection window for an October 1 start date. Anthropic has an established sponsorship process, so if you receive an offer, their legal team will guide you through the I-129 filing after your Labor Condition Application is certified by the DOL.
How do I apply for Software Developer jobs at Anthropic?
Applications go through Anthropic's careers page, where roles are listed by team and level. The process typically involves a recruiter screen, technical assessments focused on systems design and coding, and several rounds of interviews with engineering and research staff. You can also browse current openings filtered by visa sponsorship type on Migrate Mate, which surfaces Anthropic's roles alongside other verified sponsoring employers.
Which visa types does Anthropic commonly use for Software Developer roles?
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas for Software Developer positions. The H-1B covers most international hires but requires winning the annual lottery. The H-1B1 is available to Chilean and Singaporean nationals and is not subject to the lottery. The E-3 is available to Australian citizens only and also bypasses the lottery, making it a faster path if you qualify.
What qualifications does Anthropic expect for Software Developer roles?
Anthropic's Software Developer roles generally require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. In practice, roles on their core model infrastructure and safety research teams lean toward candidates with experience in distributed systems, ML frameworks, or low-level performance engineering. USCIS also requires that your degree field directly relates to your specific role for specialty occupation classification, so a generalist degree alone may not be sufficient for every position.
How do I understand the sponsorship timeline for a Software Developer offer at Anthropic?
Once Anthropic extends an offer, their immigration counsel files a Labor Condition Application with the DOL, which targets a seven-business-day processing window. For H-1B petitions, USCIS standard processing currently runs several months, though premium processing can shorten adjudication to 15 business days. If you're transferring from another employer's H-1B, portability rules under AC21 allow you to start work once Anthropic files your petition, without waiting for final approval.