Staff Software Engineer, InferenceActive

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • 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