Staff+ Software Engineer, Systems · Anthropic

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:49:17 GMT
Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · $405,000 - $485,000 USD · hybrid

About Anthropic

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.

About the Role

Anthropic's Infrastructure organisation 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.

_Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams._

Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans

Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters (thousands to hundreds of thousands of machines)

Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others

Partner with cloud providers and internal stakeholders to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy

Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)

You may be a good fit if you:

Have 10+ years of software engineering experience

Have led complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives that span multiple teams or systems

Can set technical direction for a team, not just execute within it

Have deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP)

Are strong in at least one systems language (Python, Rust, Go, Java)

Naturally uplevel the engineers around you and can redirect efforts when things are heading off track

Build alignment across senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels

Strong candidates may 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

_Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis._

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

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 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.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. 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're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This re