Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Research Systems Engineering

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Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$320k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects from ambiguity through production.
  • Partner deeply with researchers and Research teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and performant systems.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical bar.
  • Drive technical alignment and architectural direction across multiple teams.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and security of systems as usage and complexity grow.
  • Improve Infrastructure operational processes, including incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or production infrastructure.
  • Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
  • Prior experience serving as a technical lead or mentoring engineers.
  • Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build upon.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, or Java.
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience aligning multiple teams or stakeholders.
  • Preferred: 10+ years of software engineering experience, excluding internships.
  • Preferred: experience with machine learning infrastructure such as GPUs, TPUs, Trainium, and NCCL networking.
  • Preferred: low-level systems experience such as Linux kernel tuning or eBPF.
  • Preferred: background in security or privacy engineering best practices.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered with reasonable efforts made after an offer, supported by an immigration lawyer.
Anthropic

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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