Senior/Staff Software Engineer — Scalable AI Inference Systems

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking engineers to design and operate large-scale inference systems for Claude, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily. You will build resilient distributed services, manage intelligent routing and autoscaling, and own deployment pipelines for production models across cloud providers.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to push performance and reliability while extending support for new accelerator platforms and model architectures.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems.
• Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact.
• Willingness to pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description.
• Desire to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure.
• Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives both business results and research breakthroughs.
• Care about the societal impacts of your work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the distributed systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide.
• Develop resilient, flexible systems that adapt in real time to real world events.
• Develop intelligent request routing, load balancing, and traffic management systems across thousands of accelerators and multiple cloud providers.
• Maximize compute efficiency and optimize cost across the fleet by autoscaling and orchestrating production, research, and experimental workloads across multiple cloud providers.
• Build and operate production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to users.
• Provide high-performance inference infrastructure that enables researchers to develop next-generation models.
• Integrate new AI accelerator platforms and support inference for new model architectures.
• Replicate and monitor systems to ensure reliability across multi-region deployments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Real-time systems

Machine learning infra

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Python

Rust

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Anthropic is seeking engineers to design and operate large-scale inference systems for Claude, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily. You will build resilient distributed services, manage intelligent routing and autoscaling, and own deployment pipelines for production models across cloud providers.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to push performance and reliability while extending support for new accelerator platforms and model architectures.