Software Engineer, ML Networking
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsite$280k–$850k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems for accelerator-initiated tensor movement over high-speed networks.
- Optimize congestion control algorithms for large-scale synchronous workloads.
- Implement new collective algorithms to improve latency across distributed systems.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A systems-level problem solver who thrives debugging complex distributed issues and building high-performance network infrastructure for AI workloads.
Requirements
- Expert-level proficiency with network protocols and networking concepts
- Deep kernel networking experience including TCP/IP internals, XDP, eBPF, io_uring and epoll
- User-space networking experience including DPDK, RDMA and kernel bypass techniques
- Ability to build higher-level abstractions like collectives and RPC
- Skilled at diagnosing distributed networking issues, especially OSI layers 2-4
- Strong systems programming skills including memory management and NUMA-aware programming
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more
- 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