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About Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole.
Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role
Our Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide.
We bring Claude to life by serving our models via the industry\'s largest compute-agnostic inference deployments.
We are responsible for the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators.
The team has a dual mandate: maximizing compute efficiency to serve our explosive customer growth, while enabling breakthrough research by giving our scientists the high-performance inference infrastructure they need to develop next-generation models.
We tackle complex, distributed systems challenges across multiple accelerator families and emerging AI hardware running in multiple cloud platforms.
Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With
High-performance, large-scale distributed systems
Implementing and deploying machine learning systems at scale
Load balancing, request routing, or traffic management systems
LLM inference optimization, batching, and caching strategies
Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
Python or Rust
You May Be a Good Fit If You
Have significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Want to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives both business results and research breakthroughs
Care about the societal impacts of your work
Representative Projects Across The Org
Designing intelligent routing algorithms that optimize request distribution across thousands of accelerators
Autoscaling our compute fleet to dynamically match supply with demand across production, research, and experimental workloads
Building production-grade deployment pipelines for releasing new models to millions of users
Integrating new AI accelerator platforms to maintain our hardware-agnostic competitive advantage
Contributing to new inference features (e.g., structured sampling, prompt caching)
Supporting inference for new model architectures
Analyzing observability data to tune performance based on real-world production workloads
Managing multi-region deployments and geographic routing for global customers
Salary, Benefits, and Logistics
The expected base compensation for this position is below.
Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
Annual Salary€235,000—€295,000 EUR
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.
However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.
If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.
We think AI systems like the ones we\'re building have enormous social and ethical implications, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
About our research directions: we value collaboration, impact, and strong communication.
See our recent research and read about the directions our work continues to explore.
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