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
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