> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b777191a511ed82d Anthropic posts a staff FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA and 2 more, at $405,000–$485,000 base, above the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. This staff-level engineering role builds and scales Claude products and deployments for U.S. government and allied-democracy customers, spanning regulated environments through classified networks. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) Posted May 4, 2026 by Anthropic · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$405,000–$485,000** San Francisco, CA +2 Hybrid This staff-level engineering role builds and scales Claude products and deployments for U.S. government and allied-democracy customers, spanning regulated environments through classified networks. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fb777191a511ed82d&placement=top) - [View posting at Anthropic](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5205704008) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $405K–$485K Above the median Midpoint $445K · median $225K This job $405K to $485K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. [Compare pay across all Anthropic postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/anthropic) ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **8+ years** full-stack or backend software engineering *Preferred* Background - **Software engineering** Visa - **Sponsors visas** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · Washington, DC - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: United States; staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time. - **Visa sponsorship**: Available - **Pay**: ## More like this [Doppel](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/doppel) ### [Deployment Lead, FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7f9297c9e74c0d70) New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago $250,000–$315,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ce65194d3b4765e8) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3mo ago $265,000–$331,000 [Percepta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/percepta) ### [Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bd309b8539deca60) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago $150,000–$400,000 - [Other jobs at Anthropic (8)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) ## The job description from Anthropic Posted by Anthropic on May 4, 2026 ### 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 Anthropic is bringing Claude to the U.S. government and allied democracies, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to grow our public sector engineering team. This is a small team with large surface area. You’ll work across the stack to take products from 0 to 1 and beyond. We are looking for product- and civic-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling great products. The opportunities outpace our ability to build them all, so the right candidate thrives on sharp judgment, prioritization, and focus. You’ll own work like: - Building Claude products that can be used by customers in highly regulated environments - Deploying Claude into government networks - Understanding and improving Claude’s usefulness in common government workflows – for example, policy research, benefits administration, intelligence analysis - Scaling and innovating Claude for Government, our existing product serving U.S. government customers today Our team is filling a number of roles and is open to candidates with either full-stack or backend experience. ### Key responsibilities - Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks - Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing deep understanding of how agencies actually operate - Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases - Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps - Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments - Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints ### Minimum qualifications - Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations - A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products - Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills — you’ll partner with sales, legal, research, and policy teams alike ### Preferred qualifications - Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software engineer - Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one - Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption - Experience deploying software on government networks - Active federal security clearance (Secret or above) *This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports a United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.* 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. **For roles performing work in California: **We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. **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. **Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:** Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process. [View posting at Anthropic](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5205704008) ## About Anthropic AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems and deploying Claude through products and partnerships. 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