Senior Software Engineer - Systems

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

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.

• Lead infrastructure projects from design through delivery, owning scope, execution, and outcomes.
• Build and maintain systems that support AI clusters at massive scale (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines).
• Partner with cloud providers and internal teams to solve compute, networking, and reliability challenges.
• Have 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Have led technical projects end-to-end over multiple months, including scoping, breaking down work, and driving delivery.
• Have deep knowledge of distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP).
• Are strong in at least one systems language (Python, Rust, Go, Java).
• Help teammates grow through knowledge sharing and thoughtful technical guidance.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure like GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium, as well as supporting networking infrastructure like NCCL.
• Low level systems experience, for example linux kernel tuning and eBPF.
• Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems.

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: 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.

We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.