Anthropic’s newly confirmed custom silicon team is hiring people to do one specific thing: take a chip from a blank specification to a production ramp. A Silicon Engineer listing and a Technical Program Manager, Silicon listing on Anthropic’s careers portal describe an end-to-end program running from architecture definition through tapeout, first-silicon bring-up, and what the TPM role calls the “path to production readiness.” The company confirmed the effort on August 5, 2026, in statements to…