Staff Software Engineer: Scalable AI Inference Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA, WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to help build and scale Claude’s inference infrastructure, serving millions globally.

You will design distributed systems, implement load balancing and routing, and optimize compute across multiple clouds, while enabling researchers to develop next-gen models.

This role requires strong software engineering, ML systems knowledge, and a commitment to responsible AI and societal impact.

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

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Flexibility

ML infrastructure

Societal impact

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Field relevant to role

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Python

Rust

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to help build and scale Claude’s inference infrastructure, serving millions globally.

You will design distributed systems, implement load balancing and routing, and optimize compute across multiple clouds, while enabling researchers to develop next-gen models.

This role requires strong software engineering, ML systems knowledge, and a commitment to responsible AI and societal impact.