Android Engineer

Seattle, WA, United States

We are looking for an experienced Android Engineer to support our Product Engineering efforts. As one of the founding mobile engineers you will be instrumental in Anthropic's mission to build safe, reliable, and beneficial AI systems across mobile platforms.

About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI safety startup working to ensure AI systems are safe, reliable, and beneficial. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across machine learning, physics, policy, business and product. Responsibilities: Develop and iterate on core mobile application features and flows

Write stable, testable, and reusable Kotlin code

Implement pixel-perfect UI/UX designs across Android devices and OS versions

Diagnose and fix bugs and performance issues

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, test, release, and maintain mobile features

You may be a good fit if you: 8+ years of Android development experience

Proficiency in Kotlin and the Android SDK

Experience working with RESTful APIs to integrate backend services

Knowledge of Android UI, threading, memory management fundamentals

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field

Strong candidates may also: Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks like Dagger

Proficiency creating modern applications with frameworks such as Jetpack Compose

Contributions to open source Android libraries and tools

Experience with integrating native code into android applications using JNI or similar technologies.

Experience developing real-time features with WebSockets and developing with Kotlin coroutines

Passion for writing maintainable, tested code and pushing the platform forward

Bonus: Keen interest in making our app more accessible

Experience building reusable components and design systems

Passion for the Android community and ecosystem

Annual Salary (USD) The expected salary range for this position is $300k - $520k USD.

Logistics Location-based hybrid policy:  Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time.

Deadline to apply : None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

US visa sponsorship:  We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, 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.

Compensation and Benefits* Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees: - Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant. - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents. - 401(k) plan with 4% matching. - 22 weeks of paid parental leave. - Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! - Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness. - Fertility benefits via Carrot. - Daily lunches and snacks in our office. - Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees: - Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant. - Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. - Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary). - 22 weeks of paid parental leave. - Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! - Health cash plan. - Life insurance and income protection. - Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

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. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.

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 based 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.