Description
About the Role
Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users , demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.
The Systems engineering team owns compute uptime and resilience at massive scale, building the clusters, automation, and observability that make frontier AI research possible and safely deployable to customers.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans
- Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines)
- Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved , whether by you directly or by working through others
- Partner with cloud providers and internal stakeholders to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
- Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Led complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or systems
- Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP)
- Strong in at least one systems language (Python, Rust, Go, Java)
- Naturally uplevel the engineers around you and can redirect efforts when things are heading off track
- Build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels
Benefits
- Annual Salary: $405,000-$485,000 USD
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
How to Apply
If you're interested in this role, please submit your application through our website. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work.