Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment

<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><h2 class="heading">About the role</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>The team has a dual mandate: <strong>maximizing compute efficiency</strong> to reliably serve our explosive customer growth, while <strong>enabling breakthrough research</strong> 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.</p> <p>Inference systems are highly performance sensitive distributed systems. Inference serves hundreds of thousands of customers every day, and the size &amp; span of the inference fleet requires sophisticated routing, scaling, and networking systems.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain the distributed systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide</li> <li>Develop resilient, flexible systems that adapt in real time to real world events</li> <li>Develop intelligent request routing, load balancing, and traffic management systems across thousands of accelerators</li> <li>Maximize compute efficiency across the fleet by autoscaling and orchestrating production, research,