Anthropic

Data Infrastructure Engineer, Pre-training

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$500k - $850k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement highly performant, reproducible, and traceable data-processing infrastructure for large language model training.
  • Develop scalable processing primitives including tokenization, deduplication, and chunking.
  • Build data quality assurance and validation systems at scale.
  • Collaborate with research teams to implement novel data-processing architectures.
  • Build and operate end-to-end pipelines that transform raw web-scale corpora into training-ready datasets.
  • Develop distributed computing architectures and fault-tolerant infrastructure components based on research requirements.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience outside internships.
  • Strong software engineering skills building high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks, particularly Apache Spark.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred.
  • Experience with language model training infrastructure preferred.
  • Background in data infrastructure, MLOps, or ML infrastructure preferred.
  • Expertise with Python and Rust preferred.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, ownership, and attention-to-detail skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship with immigration-lawyer support when sponsorship is possible.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Collaborative office space.

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Data EngineeringML Engineering
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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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