Senior Software Engineer, Inference

Anthropic · Dublin, IE · Software Engineering - Infrastructure · listed May 20, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Where
Hybrid
Requirements listed
6
Length
957 words

In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 6

  • Have significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
  • Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
  • Want to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
  • Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives both business results and research breakthroughs
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work

Also a plus

  • High-performance, large-scale distributed systems
  • Implementing and deploying machine learning systems at scale
  • Load balancing, request routing, or traffic management systems
  • LLM inference optimization, batching, and caching strategies
  • Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
  • Python or Rust

Tools and skills named

Models & research
  • Inference6×
  • Machine learning2×
  • LLM
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems3×
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Observability
Languages
  • Python
  • Rust
Ways of working
  • Slack

Words the posting leans on

  • systems7×
  • inference6×
  • accelerator4×
  • models4×
  • routing4×
  • deployments3×
  • distributed systems3×
  • infrastructure3×
  • research3×
  • breakthrough2×
  • building2×
  • caching2×
  • claude2×
  • cloud2×
  • compute2×
  • customer2×

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