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><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>About the role</strong></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Anthropic serves Claude to millions of users across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainium — and every model update must reach production safely, quickly, and without disrupting service. The Launch Engineering team's mandate is to make inference deployment boring and unattended.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">As a Software Engineer on Launch Engineering, you'll design and build the deployment infrastructure that moves inference code from merge to production. This is a resource-constrained optimization problem at its core: validation and deployment consume the same accelerator chips that serve customer traffic, so your deploys compete with live user requests for the same hardware. Every model brings different fleet sizes, startup times, and correctness requirements, and the system must adapt continuously. You'll build systems that navigate these constraints — orchestrating validation, scheduling deployments intelligently, and driving down cycle time from merge to production.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own deployment orchestration that continuously moves validated inference builds into production across GPU, TPU, and Trainium fleets, unattended under normal conditions</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Improve capacity-aware deployment scheduling to maximize deployment throughput against constrained accelerator budgets and variable fleet sizes</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Extend deployment observability — dashboards and tooling that answer "what code is running in production," "where is my commit," and "what validation passed for this deploy"</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive down cycle time from code merge to production with pipeline architectures that minimize serial dependencies and maximize parallelism</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Optimize fleet rollout strategies for large-scale deployments across thousands of accelerator chips, minimizing disruption to serving capacity</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Evolve self-service model onboarding so new models can be added to the continuous deployment pipeline without Launch Engineering involvement</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner across the Inference organization with teams owning validation, autoscaling, and model routing to integrate deployment automation with their systems</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Minimum qualifications</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong software engineering skills, including experience designing systems that manage complex state machines and multi-stage pipelines</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency with Kubernetes-based deployments, rolling update mechanics, and container orchestration</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience building deployment, release, or delivery infrastructure where resource constraints (fleet capacity, network bandwidth, hardware availability, coordinated rollout windows) shape the design</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">A track record of building automation that measurably improves deployment velocity and reliability</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Comfort working across the stack — from backend services and databases to CLI tools and web UIs</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with oncall engineers, model teams, and infrastructure partners</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">5+ years of experience building deployment, release, or delivery infrastructure at scale</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with Python and/or Rust in production systems</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with ML inference or training infrastructure deployment, particularly across multiple accelerator types (GPU, TPU, Trainium)</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Background in capacity planning or resource-constrained scheduling (e.g., bin-packing, fleet management, job scheduling with hardware affinity)</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with progressive delivery in systems with long validation cycles: canary/soak testing, blue-green deployments, traffic shifting, automated rollback</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience at companies with large-scale release engineering challenges (mobile release trains, monorepo deployments, multi-datacenter rollouts)</li>
</ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. </p>
<p>For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Salary:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$320,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$485,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h2><strong>Logistics</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Minimum education: </strong>Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience</p>
<p><strong>Required field of study: </strong>A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience</p>
<p><strong>Minimum years of experience: </strong>Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position</p>
<p><strong>Location-based hybrid policy:</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Visa sponsorship:</strong> We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But 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.</p>
<p><strong>We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.</strong> Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.<br><br><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Your safety matters to us.</strong> To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit <u data-stringify-type="underline"><a class="c-link c-link--underline" href="http://anthropic.com/careers" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://anthropic.com/careers" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">anthropic.com/careers</a></u> directly for confirmed position openings.</p>
<h2><strong>How we're different</strong></h2>
<p>We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much
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