Senior AI Inference Deployment Engineer

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Software Engineer for their Launch Engineering team to design and build deployment infrastructure for their AI systems. The role involves orchestrating the deployment of inference code across multiple hardware types, focusing on optimizing deployment throughput and ensuring continuous operation.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, proficiency with Kubernetes, and experience in building reliable automation tools. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits based in Seattle.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills, including experience designing systems that manage complex state machines and multi-stage pipelines.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Experience building deployment, release, or delivery infrastructure where resource constraints shape the design.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment orchestration that continuously moves validated inference builds into production.
• Improve capacity-aware deployment scheduling for maximized throughput.
• Extend deployment observability with dashboards and tooling.

Skills

Strong software engineering skills

Proficiency with Kubernetes

Experience building deployment infrastructure

Comfort working across the stack

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Software Engineer for their Launch Engineering team to design and build deployment infrastructure for their AI systems. The role involves orchestrating the deployment of inference code across multiple hardware types, focusing on optimizing deployment throughput and ensuring continuous operation.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, proficiency with Kubernetes, and experience in building reliable automation tools. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits based in Seattle.