Anthropic · 2 weeks ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Inference
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$300K/yr - $485K/yrAnthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The Senior/Staff Software Engineer in Inference will be responsible for building and maintaining critical systems for AI deployment, focusing on maximizing compute efficiency and enabling advanced research.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide
Maximizing compute efficiency to serve our explosive customer growth
Enabling breakthrough research by giving our scientists the high-performance inference infrastructure they need to develop next-generation models
Tackling complex, distributed systems challenges across multiple accelerator families and emerging AI hardware running in multiple cloud platforms
Designing intelligent routing algorithms that optimize request distribution across thousands of accelerators
Autoscaling our compute fleet to dynamically match supply with demand across production, research, and experimental workloads
Building production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to millions of users
Integrating new AI accelerator platforms to maintain our hardware-agnostic competitive advantage
Contributing to new inference features (e.g., structured sampling, prompt caching)
Supporting inference for new model architectures
Analyzing observability data to tune performance based on real-world production workloads
Managing multi-region deployments and geographic routing for global customers
Qualification
Required
Have significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
Want to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives both business results and research breakthroughs
Care about the societal impacts of your work
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred
High-performance, large-scale distributed systems
Implementing and deploying machine learning systems at scale
Load balancing, request routing, or traffic management systems
LLM inference optimization, batching, and caching strategies
Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
Python or Rust
Benefits
Equity and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
Founded in 2021
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (105)
2024 (13)
2023 (3)
2022 (4)
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.74BKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoogleAmazon
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
2025-03-03Series E· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
Recent News
2026-01-12
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