Staff+ Software Engineer, Research Systems Engineering

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 organization builds and operates the distributed systems that train, serve, and secure our AI models. Every other team at Anthropic depends on these systems.

In this role, you'll work directly with our Research teams to build the reliable, scalable, performant infrastructure our research depends on. This is a cross-functional systems team: you'll scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects and resolve the performance and scalability bottlenecks that limit how fast we can grow.

Key responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system

• Build deep partnerships with researchers and Research teams to understand their needs and deliver for them

• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team

• Build alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces

• Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you build as usage and complexity grow

• Lead the improvement of operational

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