Anthropic hiring in India with big salary after CEO warns AI will take SE jobs

Anthropic is actively hiring engineers in India even as its CEO warns that AI could take over much of coding work in the near future.

In Short

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI could handle most coding tasks within 6–12 months
• According to CEO, AI is bringing a big shift in how software engineers work
• Meanwhile, Anthropic is hiring for engineering roles for Bengaluru office

At the start of 2026, Anthropic laid out its India plans, aiming to expand and support what is now its second-largest global market. One of the first steps in that direction was opening its Bengaluru office. Following that announcement, the company has been actively hiring across teams, including software and applied AI roles. While the hiring push looks fairly typical, it comes in contrast to what the company’s CEO believes, that AI could soon take over a large chunk of software engineering work.

In fact, Dario Amodei hasn’t been subtle about his views. Over the past few months, he has repeatedly said that coding — especially routine programming — could be among the first white-collar jobs to be heavily disrupted by AI. He has even suggested that AI models could soon handle most coding tasks, in six to 12 months.

“I think coding is going away first, or coding is being done by the AI models first,” Amodei said during Nikhil Kamath’s People by WTF podcast earlier this year.

According to Anthropic’s CEO, there are already signs of this shift. In some cases, engineers are relying on AI to generate code, moving their role more towards reviewing and refining outputs rather than writing everything from scratch. He has also hinted that entire job categories built over decades could shrink or even disappear as AI capabilities improve.

And yet, despite these warnings, Anthropic is hiring — and not in small numbers. Over the past few months, the company has listed hundreds of engineering roles globally, including positions for its India office. This suggests that while the company’s leadership sees a future where AI takes over more coding work, that shift is not happening overnight. AI may be changing how software is built, but it hasn’t eliminated the need for engineers altogether, at least not yet.

Coming back to India-specific roles, Anthropic is currently hiring for positions such as Applied AI Architect and Applied AI Engineer (Beneficial Deployments) in Bengaluru. As per the listings, the Applied AI Engineer role focuses on working with partners, including nonprofits and mission-driven organisations , to deploy AI systems in areas like education, healthcare, and economic mobility. The role involves prototyping new AI agents, improving evaluation systems, and building tools that can scale impact across multiple organisations.

Meanwhile, the Applied AI Architect role leans more towards enterprise adoption, helping companies understand how to integrate AI into their tech stacks, design scalable systems, and solve complex business problems using large language models.

In simple terms, in India, Anthropic isn’t just looking for coders. It’s looking for engineers who can work with AI, people who can guide, evaluate, deploy, and scale these systems. Now these roles go well beyond traditional coding, which also aligns with Amodei’s views who has been asserting that AI will bring a shift in the engineering and how software engineers work, instead of taking over their roles altogether.

Meanwhile, this hiring push also ties into Anthropic’s broader India strategy. According to the company, India is a key market, not just because of its size, but because of its strong developer ecosystem.

The company has highlighted that a significant portion of Claude usage in India already comes from technical workloads like coding and system building. With its Bengaluru office, Anthropic plans to tap into local talent while also building partnerships across sectors such as education, startups, enterprises, and even the public sector.

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