Staff+ Software Engineer, Research Systems Engineering

<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><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> <h3><strong>About the role</strong></h3> <p>Anthropic's Infrastructure organization builds and operates the distributed systems that train, serve, and secure our AI models - systems that every other team at Anthropic depends on. <br><br>As a Staff+ Software Engineer on Research Systems Engineering, you'll work directly with our Research teams to build the reliable, scalable, performant infrastructure our research depends on. This is a cross-functional systems team: you'll scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects and resolve the performance and scalability bottlenecks that limit how fast we can grow.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system</li> <li>Develop deep understanding and partnerships with researchers and Research teams in order to deliver for them.</li> <li>Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar for the team</li> <li>Drive alignment on technical direction across multiple teams, working through ambiguous problem spaces</li> <li>Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and security of the s