Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Lead Scalable AI Systems

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to scale and secure our distributed systems used to train and serve AI models.

You will partner with Research teams to define requirements, lead multi-month projects, and mentor engineers while raising the technical bar across the Infrastructure org. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security as our platforms grow.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
• Experience independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
• Prior experience as a technical lead or mentor for other engineers.
• Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on top of.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS, GCP).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
• Build deep partnerships with researchers and Research teams to understand their needs and deliver for them
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team
• Build alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces
• Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow
• Lead the improvement of operational processes across Infrastructure, such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, so the team learns from every incident

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Programming: Python/Rust/Go/Java

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to scale and secure our distributed systems used to train and serve AI models.

You will partner with Research teams to define requirements, lead multi-month projects, and mentor engineers while raising the technical bar across the Infrastructure org. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and security as our platforms grow.