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Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA

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Frontier labonsitesenior, staff$320k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Serve Claude to millions via large compute-agnostic inference deployments.
  • Build intelligent routing and orchestration across diverse AI accelerators.
  • Enable breakthrough research with high-performance inference infrastructure.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

A results-oriented distributed systems engineer who thrives on high-impact, performance-sensitive challenges and cares deeply about safe, beneficial AI. Flexible, collaborative, and eager to learn ML infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
  • Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Willingness to pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
  • Desire to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
  • Thrive in environments where technical excellence drives business results and research breakthroughs
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work
remote policy
Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
visa sponsorship
Sponsors visas with reasonable effort, subject to role and candidate eligibility
hiring process
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis with no application deadline

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
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