Senior Software Engineer, Systems

Anthropic is seeking an experienced engineer for our Systems team.  You'll lead initiatives supporting some of the largest, most sophisticated clusters in industry used to train, research, and ultimately serve AI models.  Your work will be crucial in ensuring Anthropic is able to continue reliably and safely training frontier models!
About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and society. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

Responsibilities:

• Lead build out of industry-leading AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines), partnering closely with cloud service providers on cluster build out and required features
• Consult with different stakeholders to deeply understand infrastructure and compute needs, identifying potential solutions to support frontier research and product development
• Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable infrastructure systems.
• Mentor top technical talent
• Design processes (e.g. postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively and never fail the same way twice

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of relevant industry experience3+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
• Are obsessed with infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
• Have a passion for supporting internal partners like research to understand their needs
• Have excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Possess deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP

Strong candidates may also:

• Have security and privacy best practice expertise
• 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 
• Technical expertise: Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems

Annual Salary (USD)

• The expected salary range for this position is $300k - $485k USD

LogisticsLocation-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits*Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.- Fertility benefits via Carrot.- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity gr