Staff Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: London, UK. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office presence.

Annual salary: £325,000–£485,000 GBP

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems focused on safety and societal benefit.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for accelerator node lifecycle management, including ingestion, provisioning, health checks, and automated repair.
• Build and scale AI compute clusters across multiple cloud providers and accelerator families.
• Design systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware while improving fleet reliability and reducing stranded capacity.
• Define infrastructure architecture and solve complex technical problems directly or through technical leadership.
• Collaborate with cloud providers and research, inference, and product teams on compute, data, and infrastructure strategy.
• Establish incident response, postmortem, on-call, mentoring, and technical coaching practices.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, Python, or another systems language, plus Terraform infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning accelerators, including GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium.
• Experience leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple teams or systems and aligning senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
• Preferred experience includes 7+ years in software engineering, hyperscale compute infrastructure, Kubernetes internals, low-level systems, high-performance networking, and production reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on large-scale AI safety and trustworthy AI.
• Flexible working hours and office-based collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and benefits with optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration-lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.