Performance Engineer, Inference Systems
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Seattle
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $350K–$850K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 5 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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…
About the Role
Anthropic's inference fleet serves Claude to millions of users across our own products and the world's largest cloud platforms. The stack that makes this possible is deep and tightly coupled: accelerator kernels, model servers, distributed routing,…
Key Responsibilities
Run cross-layer performance investigations across throughput, latency, and reliability, sizing the gap between actual fleet performance and theoretical rooflines, identifying root causes, and quantifying the value of closing them Own and improve the…
Minimum Qualifications
Hands-on performance engineering experience: profiling, roofline analysis, latency/throughput optimization, and root-cause investigation in complex production systems Proficiency in Python, with the ability to read, instrument, and contribute to large…
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with ML systems, especially training or inference infrastructure or general LLM serving stacks. Direct large-scale inference experience is a strong plus Familiarity with GPU/TPU/accelerator performance concepts (memory bandwidth, kernel overheads,…
Representative Projects
Trace a 350ms latency gap on a new accelerator platform from end-to-end request timing down to a server scheduling overhead, quantify the win, and land the fix directly or with the owning team Redesign the correctness eval gate: determine which signals…
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of…
Logistics
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How we're different
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…
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to…
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