Software Engineer, Windows - Claude Code

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

At Anthropic, we believe new AI capabilities are best achieved through secure foundations, not in spite of them. As capabilities grow more advanced, it is critical that progress moves forward safely and for the benefit of all society. It is the reason why security sits at the center of our work, and not as an afterthought.

We're specifically looking for a Software Engineer with deep Windows expertise to help us build and maintain Claude Code, our AI-powered coding assistant. The ideal candidate will have a passion for developer tools, strong experience building CLI applications on Windows, and a desire to ensure Windows developers have a first-class experience with our tools.

Claude Code is used by developers around the world, and a significant portion of them work in Windows environments. This role is critical to ensuring our product works seamlessly for Windows users—from installation to daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Windows-specific features and infrastructure for Claude Code

• Own the Windows developer experience, ensuring Claude Code installs, runs, and performs reliably across Windows environments

• Develop and maintain PowerShell integrations and scripts that enable smooth Windows workflows

• Collaborate with the broader Claude Code team to ensure cross-platform compatibility and feature parity

• Work with Windows package managers (Chocolatey, winget, scoop) to streamline installation and updates for Windows users

• Debug and resolve Windows-specific issues, including file system, permissions, and shell compatibility challenges

• Engage directly with Windows developers inside and outside Anthropic to gather feedback and improve user experience

• Contribute to technical documentation to help Windows users get the most out of Claude Code

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have deep Windows development experience, including PowerShell scripting and Windows system integration

• Have experience building and maintaining CLI applications

• Are passionate about developer tools and understand what makes tools useful and adoptable

• Can work independently to identify and solve Windows-specific challenges

• Have shipped software used by developers in production Windows environments

• Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

• Have strong TypeScript development experience

• Linux and/or macOS development (cross-platform thinking)

• Cross-platform compatibility considerations and tooling

• Windows package managers (Chocolatey, winget, scoop)

• Working with large codebases and quickly jumping into unfamiliar development environments

• Working with container orchestration and cloud infrastructure (especially Windows containers)

• Hands-on experience working with large language models and prompt engineering

• Node.js/Bun runtime environments

• Building and maintaining developer tools at scale

Why Join Anthropic?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven development tools while working alongside top engineers and researchers in the field. You'll play a key role in ensuring Claude Code delivers an exceptional experience for the millions of developers who work on Windows every day.

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:

$320,000-$485,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process