Anthropic
Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure
About this role
Anthropic seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to design and scale systems supporting their research organization. You'll independently lead complex multi-month projects, make architectural decisions for research tooling, and partner with researchers to anticipate and evolve infrastructure as demands grow rapidly.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and scale infrastructure supporting rapidly increasing research workloads with evolving requirements
- Lead complex, multi-month engineering projects independently from ambiguous problem definition to production deployment
- Drive cross-organizational alignment on technical direction with multiple stakeholder teams
- Make foundational architectural decisions that shape research infrastructure across the company
- Partner with researchers to understand workflows and anticipate future needs
- Ensure reliability and scalability of critical systems as load and complexity increase
What they're looking for
- Large-scale distributed systems design and operation
- Architectural decision-making for multi-team infrastructure
- Complex project scoping and independent delivery
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding
- Cross-functional communication and stakeholder alignment
- Infrastructure-as-code and cloud infrastructure
- Machine learning research workflows and tooling
- Rapid iteration and first-principles problem solving
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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 large-scale distributed system you designed—what were the key architectural decisions and trade-offs?
- Describe a complex, ambiguous multi-month project you scoped and led independently. How did you break down the problem?