Software Engineer, Sandboxing (Systems)

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><p>Anthropic is seeking a Linux OS and System Programming Subject Matter Expert to join our Infrastructure team. In this role, you'll work on accelerating and optimizing our virtualization and VM workloads that power our AI infrastructure. Your expertise in low-level system programming, kernel optimization, and virtualization technologies will be crucial in ensuring Anthropic can scale our compute infrastructure efficiently and reliably for training and serving frontier AI models.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Optimize our virtualization stack, improving performance, reliability, and efficiency of our VM environments</li> <li>Design and implement kernel modules, drivers, and system-level components to enhance our compute infrastructure</li> <li>Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks in virtualized environments</li> <li>Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to optimize interactions between our workloads and underlying hardware</li> <li>Develop tooling for monitoring and improving virtualization performance</li> <li>Work with our ML engineers to understand their computational needs and optimize our systems accordingly</li> <li>Contribute to the design and implementation of our next-generation compute infrastructure</li> <li>Share knowledge with team members on low-level systems programming and Linux kernel internals</li> <li>Partner with cloud providers to influence hardware and platform features for AI workloads</li> </ul> <h2><strong>You may be a good fit if you:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Have experience with Linux kernel development,