Lead Node Infra Engineer — AI Compute & Cloud

SignalAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Node Infra Lead to own the technical strategy and lifecycle for accelerator compute across multiple clouds. You will steer ingestion, bring-up, health checks, and automated repair for a large AI compute fleet powering Claude.

You’ll collaborate with research, inference, and product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy, while driving incident response and operational excellence across the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum: deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Proficient in at least one systems language (e.g., Rust, Go, Python).
• Hands-on experience with ML accelerators (GPUs/TPUs/Trainium).
• Proven ability to lead multi-quarter initiatives across teams.
• Strong stakeholder alignment and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management - ingestion, bring-up, health checking, and automated repair.
• Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families.
• Design and operate the systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically, driving up fleet MTBI and minimizing stranded capacity.
• Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved.
• Work closely with cloud providers and internal research/inference/product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy.
• Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call).
• Support the growth of engineers around you through technical mentorship and coaching.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Terraform

Systems programming

Leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Karpenter

Mesos

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Node Infra Lead to own the technical strategy and lifecycle for accelerator compute across multiple clouds. You will steer ingestion, bring-up, health checks, and automated repair for a large AI compute fleet powering Claude.

You’ll collaborate with research, inference, and product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy, while driving incident response and operational excellence across the team.