Staff Research Systems Engineer — Scale AI Infra & Lead

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Staff+ Software Engineer for Research Systems Engineering, building reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our AI research. You will scope multi-month projects, mentor engineers, and partner with research teams to deliver impactful systems.

You will own reliability and security as systems scale, contribute to incident response, and drive technical direction across multiple teams in a hybrid, in-office setup.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production.
• A track record of 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 (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, or Java).
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across multiple teams or stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
• Develop deep understanding and partnerships with researchers and Research teams in order to deliver for them.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team
• Drive 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
• Have a leadership role across Infrastructure to build and improve operational processes, such as incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations, that help the team learn from every incident

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Architectural decisions

Programming languages

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Anthropic seeks a Staff+ Software Engineer for Research Systems Engineering, building reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our AI research. You will scope multi-month projects, mentor engineers, and partner with research teams to deliver impactful systems.

You will own reliability and security as systems scale, contribute to incident response, and drive technical direction across multiple teams in a hybrid, in-office setup.