Research Infrastructure Engineer: Scale AI Research Tools

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

Anthropic seeks an experienced software engineer to join our Research Productivity team, building infrastructure to accelerate research across Anthropic. You will scale infrastructure as demand grows and work on problems from first principles, driving reliability and speed in a startup-like environment within a larger company.

You’ll scope multi-month projects, align with researchers, and design systems that evolve with product needs.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
• Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability.
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on top of.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across multiple teams or stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale infrastructure and systems that support rapidly increasing usage, where requirements and workload continue to evolve as the products built on top of them evolve.
• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month engineering projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system.
• Drive cross-organizational alignment on technical direction, working through ambiguous problem spaces with multiple stakeholders and teams.
• Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation of research infrastructure and tooling across Anthropic.
• Partner directly with researchers to deeply understand their workflows, then anticipate and design for how those needs will change.
• Iterate quickly, favoring pragmatic, first-principles solutions and fast feedback loops over heavy upfront design.
• Take ownership of the reliability and scalability of critical systems as load, usage, and complexity increase.
• Help set technical standards and best practices for the team, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Ambiguity handling

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Anthropic seeks an experienced software engineer to join our Research Productivity team, building infrastructure to accelerate research across Anthropic. You will scale infrastructure as demand grows and work on problems from first principles, driving reliability and speed in a startup-like environment within a larger company.

You’ll scope multi-month projects, align with researchers, and design systems that evolve with product needs.