Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure (Flexible Hours)

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Research Productivity organization to scale the infrastructure behind research tooling. You will work in a startup‑within‑a‑startup environment, solving reliability and scalability challenges as infrastructure evolves with product efforts.

You will independently scope complex projects, collaborate with research teams, and drive architectural decisions that shape how the infrastructure supports fast‑moving AI research at Anthropic.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large‑scale distributed systems in production.
• Ability to scope and deliver complex multi‑month technical projects independently.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands‑on coding ability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale infrastructure and systems to support rapidly increasing usage.
• Independently scope and lead multi‑month projects from start to production.
• Drive cross‑organizational alignment on technical direction with multiple stakeholders.
• Make architectural decisions that shape research infrastructure and tooling across the company.
• Partner with researchers to understand workflows and future needs.
• Iterate quickly with first‑principles solutions and fast feedback loops.
• Own reliability and scalability of critical systems as load grows.
• Mentor other engineers and set technical standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Project leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Research Productivity organization to scale the infrastructure behind research tooling. You will work in a startup‑within‑a‑startup environment, solving reliability and scalability challenges as infrastructure evolves with product efforts.

You will independently scope complex projects, collaborate with research teams, and drive architectural decisions that shape how the infrastructure supports fast‑moving AI research at Anthropic.