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Anthropic

Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability

San Francisco, CAFrom $485kmidAdded yesterday

About this role

Anthropic seeks a Software Engineer to build foundational infrastructure for the Interpretability team, enabling researchers to safely access frontier AI models at scale. You'll design secure, private, and efficient systems spanning security, data management, compute orchestration, and developer tooling while working closely with researchers to understand their needs.

What you'll do

  • Design and own shared infrastructure for interpretability research including environments, data systems, and compute tooling
  • Lead cross-functional efforts with security, compute, and platform teams to align company-wide solutions with research requirements
  • Identify and resolve critical developer experience bottlenecks affecting researcher productivity
  • Migrate interpretability methods from research prototypes to reliable production audit pipelines
  • Build secure-by-default access patterns and data governance systems for petabyte-scale research data
  • Optimize scheduling and resource utilization for large accelerator fleet deployments

What they're looking for

  • Python and at least one systems language (Rust, Go, Java)
  • Distributed systems design and operation
  • Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes orchestration
  • Security and access control patterns
  • Data systems and large-scale storage management
  • DevOps and observability tooling
  • Agentic systems engineering
  • Cross-functional communication and collaboration
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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.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a time you built infrastructure that significantly improved developer productivity—how did you measure impact?
  • Describe your experience designing security controls that balanced protection with usability in a research environment.