The opportunity
Anthropic trains and serves frontier AI models on some of the largest and most diverse accelerator fleets in the world, and the hardware those models run on is one of the most direct levers we have on capability, cost, and reliability. Our Hardware Systems team owns the…
What you'll do
Own system path-finding and architecture for your domain across the breadth: of compute Anthropic deploys — from concept and requirements through spec, design review, and deployment — and act as a reviewer and thought partner across the others.
Write and own high-level requirements and specifications: system, board, interface, rack — that partners and internal teams build against.
Review partner and vendor designs against our requirements, make the build /: buy / co-design calls with supply chain and partnership teams, and surface misalignment or schedule risk early enough to act on it.
Drive the interconnect and networking architecture that ties our systems: together — scale-up and scale-out fabrics, NICs and switches, optics, and topology.
Drive board-, chassis-, and system-level architecture with our partners: major component placement, PCB architecture, connector and cable design, and power and thermal budgeting — at the chassis, rack, and data-hall level.
Develop performance simulations, hardware models, and "what-if" scenarios to: evaluate and choose between candidate hardware architectures.
What they're looking for
- + years in hardware systems architecture or engineering for hyperscale, HPC,: AI/ML, or high-end networking platforms.
- Experience with AI accelerator systems (GPU, TPU, or other custom ASIC: platforms) and their scale-up / scale-out fabrics.
- Familiarity with the chip-package-system interface and co-design.
- Experience establishing a new function, program, or engineering practice.
- Comfort working with: and curiosity about pushing — AI tools as part of an engineering workflow.
- Degree in EE, CE, ME, CS, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Depth in one or more of:
- High-speed SerDes, PCIe/CXL, Ethernet/InfiniBand, and optical interconnect.
