Staff Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment

Anthropic

United States

Hybrid

USD 320,000 - 485,000

Full time

14 days+
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Parental leave
Flexible working hours
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Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Staff + Senior Software Engineer for Inference Deployment to build and operate the systems that serve Claude to millions. You will design distributed services, optimize compute efficiency, and enable researchers with high-performance infrastructure across cloud platforms.

You will iterate on routing, autoscaling, and orchestration for production and research workloads, while collaborating with researchers and engineers to push safe, scalable AI.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing distributed systems that scale to millions of users.
  • Experience deploying machine learning inference systems at scale.
  • Familiarity with load balancing, request routing, or traffic management.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed inference systems for Claude across environments.
  • Develop resilient, flexible systems that adapt in real time to events.
  • Automate deployment pipelines for models to production and researchers.

Skills

Distributed systems
High-performance infra
Load balancing
Traffic routing
Research collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes
AWS
GCP
Azure
Python
Rust

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Staff + Senior Software Engineer for Inference Deployment to build and operate the systems that serve Claude to millions. You will design distributed services, optimize compute efficiency, and enable researchers with high-performance infrastructure across cloud platforms.

You will iterate on routing, autoscaling, and orchestration for production and research workloads, while collaborating with researchers and engineers to push safe, scalable AI.

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