Senior Hardware Systems Architect — Hyperscale AI Compute

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking senior hardware systems architects and technical leads to own architecture across compute, power, cooling, interconnect, and reliability for AI workloads. You will write high-level specs, guide bring-up, and coordinate with ML performance, infra software, supply chain, and vendor partners.

This role requires deep hands-on domain expertise, experience scaling hardware, and strong technical leadership to drive validation and AI-assisted design practices.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one core hardware-systems domain (e.g., interconnect, power, thermal) for large-scale compute or networking systems.
• Experience owning hardware system architecture at scale — machine, rack, row, and cluster — and authoring specifications and requirements.
• Experience taking hardware from architecture through bring-up and high-volume production deployment.
• Experience working with external hardware vendors and partners — reviewing their designs and holding them to a specification.
• Ability to reason about trade-offs across adjacent hardware domains (e.g., interconnect power thermal mechanical).
• Track record of technical leadership — owning directional decisions and their consequences, and driving alignment across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own system path-finding and architecture for your domain across the breadth of compute Anthropic deploys.
• Write and own high-level requirements and specifications — system, board, interface, rack.
• Review partner and vendor designs against our requirements and surface risks early.
• Drive interconnect and networking architecture that ties our systems together.
• Drive board-, chassis-, and system-level architecture with partners and manage power/thermal budgeting.
• Develop performance simulations, hardware models, and what-if analyses.
• Define validation, bring-up, and qualification strategy for new platforms.
• Partner with ML performance and infra software teams so hardware decisions land well for workloads.

Skills

Hardware architecture

System bring-up

Vendor collaboration

Trade-off analysis

Technical leadership

Autonomy in fast-moving env

Education

Degree in EE/CE/ME/CS or related

Tools

Hardware design specs

BMC/firmware basics

Job description

Anthropic is seeking senior hardware systems architects and technical leads to own architecture across compute, power, cooling, interconnect, and reliability for AI workloads. You will write high-level specs, guide bring-up, and coordinate with ML performance, infra software, supply chain, and vendor partners.

This role requires deep hands-on domain expertise, experience scaling hardware, and strong technical leadership to drive validation and AI-assisted design practices.