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Staff+ Software Engineer, Vectordb

Location: Seattle, WA
Work mode: Remote
Type: full time
Listed: Oct 22, 2026

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Staff+ Software Engineer at Anthropic working on the vector search infrastructure for Claude. This role involves owning the vector database layer, including index structures, storage, query execution, and serving, as well as ensuring production readiness, capacity planning, and operational tooling. The engineer will drive trade-offs in recall, latency, and cost, and scale throughput to meet growing demand.

Skills and focus areas

vector databases
search systems
production systems
on-call
index structures
storage layout
query execution
serving layer
benchmarking
capacity planning
operational tooling
quantization

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