Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Scaling

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

The Inference team at Anthropic is responsible for building and scaling critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain distributed systems serving Claude to millions of users worldwide.
• Develop resilient, flexible systems adapting 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.
• Build and operate production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to users.
• Provide high-performance inference infrastructure for researchers to develop next-generation models.
• Integrate new AI accelerator platforms and support inference for new model architectures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems.
• Results-oriented with a bias towards flexibility and impact.
• Willingness to take on additional responsibilities beyond job description.
• Desire to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure.
• Thrive in environments where technical excellence drives business results and research breakthroughs.
• Care about the societal impacts of your work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-performance, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience implementing and deploying machine learning systems at scale.
• Experience with load balancing, request routing, or traffic management systems.
• Familiarity with LLM inference optimization, batching, and caching strategies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proficiency in Python or Rust.

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$485,000 USD.