Our Inference team builds and maintains the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide. We enable the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators, maximizing compute efficiency while supporting breakthrough research with high-performance inference infrastructure.
Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA
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USD 320,000 - 485,000
Requirements
Skills
- Significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
- Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Willingness to pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Desire to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
- Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives business results and research breakthroughs
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
- Experience with high-performance, large-scale distributed systems
- Experience implementing and deploying machine learning systems at scale
- Experience with load balancing, request routing, or traffic management systems
- Familiarity with LLM inference optimization, batching, and caching strategies
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Proficiency in Python or Rust
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain the distributed systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide
- Develop resilient, flexible systems that adapt in real time to real world events
- Develop intelligent request routing, load balancing, and traffic management systems across thousands of accelerators
- Maximize compute efficiency across the fleet by autoscaling and orchestrating production, research, and experimental workloads
- Build and operate production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to users
- Provide high-performance inference infrastructure that enables researchers to develop next-generation models
- Integrate new AI accelerator platforms and support inference for new model architectures
Technologies
Distributed systemsIntelligent request routingLoad balancingTraffic managementAutoscalingDeployment pipelinesInference infrastructureAI accelerator platformsKubernetesAWSGCPAzurePythonRust
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