Anthropic
Silicon Engineer
About this role
Anthropic is building a custom silicon team and seeks experienced chip designers to lead end-to-end silicon development across domains like front-end design, verification, physical design, and analog circuits. You'll own critical technical decisions, partner with external foundries and IP vendors, and drive hardware-software co-design for AI accelerators.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end silicon program activities including strategy, specification, execution, and technical standards
- Write and maintain specifications and interface definitions that guide architecture and design decisions
- Make and own directional calls on technology selection, build-vs-buy decisions, and design authority allocation
- Partner with inference, performance, kernels, and infrastructure teams on hardware-software co-design
- Contribute domain perspective to chip architecture discussions, including identifying cross-domain tradeoffs
- Support first-silicon bring-up and debug activities across all design domains
What they're looking for
- Deep hands-on expertise in one silicon domain (front-end, verification, physical design, analog, DFT, CAD, or packaging)
- Demonstrated ownership of taped-out and shipped silicon with detailed technical accountability
- Working fluency in adjacent silicon domains to reason about chip-level tradeoffs
- Experience managing external partners (ASIC houses, IP vendors, foundries, test partners)
- Track record owning consequential technical decisions and their consequences
- Practical experience with AI coding tools and clear perspective on their limitations
- Strong written and verbal communication with cross-team and cross-organizational alignment skills
- Ability to operate with high autonomy in dynamic, rapidly changing programs
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Anthropic
Anthropic builds Claude, an AI assistant, and is hiring for engineering roles across infrastructure, data systems, and security that support both AI research operations and the company's internal technology needs. The company seeks infrastructure engineers, systems integrators, data scientists, and security specialists to build production-scale systems for training data pipelines, financial operations, developer productivity measurement, research infrastructure, and server firmware security.
- Website
- anthropic.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a silicon project you shipped: what was your specific ownership, what went wrong, and how did you handle it?
- Describe a time you made a directional call (technology choice, build-vs-buy, partner selection) that had real consequences—what was the decision and how did it turn out?