Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra

• Join Anthropic’s Node Infra team as a Staff Software Engineer in London. • Own the full lifecycle of accelerator capacity across one of the industry’s largest AI compute fleets. • Provision compute from all major cloud providers and custom-built Anthropic datacentres. • Build the health, diagnostics and repair automation that keeps every GPU, TPU and Trainium node usable. • Set technical strategy that shapes how quickly Anthropic can train and scale frontier models. • Earn £325,000–£485,000, working from the London office at least 25% of the time.

• Bring deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS, GCP or Azure. • Write Rust, Go, Python or another systems language proficiently. • Use Terraform proficiently for Infrastructure as Code. • Bring hands-on experience with ML accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs or Trainium. • Show a track record of leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple teams. • Build alignment with senior stakeholders and communicate well at every level. • Hold a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent mix of education, training and experience.

• Bring 7+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead. • Show experience managing hyperscale compute infrastructure of 10,000+ nodes. • Know Kubernetes internals such as the scheduler, autoscaler, kubelet or Karpenter. • Bring low-level experience with kernels, virtualisation, device drivers, firmware or hardware diagnostics. • Know high-performance networking such as EFA, RDMA or InfiniBand. • Show ownership of production reliability for high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems. • Show open source contributions to projects such as Kubernetes or the Linux kernel.

• Own the strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management, from ingestion to automated repair. • Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across clouds and accelerator families. • Design systems that automatically detect, isolate and fix unhealthy hardware. • Improve fleet reliability and minimise stranded capacity. • Define infrastructure architecture and make sure the hardest problems get solved. • Shape long-term compute strategy with cloud providers and research, inference and product teams. • Evolve incident response, postmortem and on-call practices. • Mentor and coach the engineers around you.

• Earn £325,000–£485,000 a year. • Receive visa sponsorship, supported by a retained immigration lawyer. • Enjoy generous vacation and parental leave. • Work flexible hours with a hybrid setup of at least 25% in the office. • Get optional equity donation matching. • Work on infrastructure at a scale few companies operate.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, with a mission to create reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems. It works as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts, treating AI research as an empirical science. Its team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts and business leaders building AI that is safe and beneficial for society.