Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 4H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$500k–$850k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build end-to-end pipelines turning web-scale corpora into training datasets.
- Help develop next-generation large language models for safe AI systems.
- Design reproducible, traceable data infrastructure for LLM pretraining.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative office space
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded engineer with deep distributed systems experience who thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership, and is motivated by building safe, ethical AI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience outside of internships
- Strong software engineering skills building high-throughput fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks, particularly Apache Spark
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with language model training infrastructure
- Background in Data Infrastructure, MLOps, or ML infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available, but not guaranteed for every role and candidate
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google