Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; hybrid policy requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $405,000–$625,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale infrastructure and systems supporting rapidly increasing research usage and evolving workloads.
• Scope and lead complex, ambiguous, multi-month engineering projects from initial concept through production.
• Drive technical alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Make architectural decisions shaping research infrastructure and tooling.
• Partner with researchers to understand workflows and anticipate changing requirements.
• Own reliability and scalability, establish technical standards, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or production infrastructure.
• Track record of independently delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability.
• Experience making architectural decisions adopted by other engineers and teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including cross-team alignment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience building infrastructure or platforms for research or machine learning workflows.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with compute, tooling, and workflow needs of large-scale machine learning research.
• Startup or startup-like experience, or prior technical leadership and mentoring experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on large-scale AI research and long-term impact.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment for collaboration.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.