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Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Velocity

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labremotestaff$405k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Set technical direction for Inference developer productivity and feedback loops.
  • Build systems that eliminate toil so engineers ship inference software faster.
  • Serve Claude to millions with speed, reliability, and efficiency at scale.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded technical anchor who thrives owning platform direction and improving feedback loops. Motivated by removing friction so fellow engineers can ship with ease.

Requirements

  • 8+ years software engineering experience as technical lead on infrastructure or platform teams
  • Deep background in systems, build/test, or ML infrastructure with hands-on toolchain and CI/CD work
  • Experience owning toolchains or dev environments for compute-intensive workloads
  • Depth in at least one accelerator ecosystem and appetite to learn others
  • Track record defining engineering metrics and improving velocity
  • Experience driving technical alignment across organizational boundaries
  • Strong written and verbal communication and influence without authority
remote policy
In office at least 25% of the time
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship available with limitations by 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
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