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Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Posted
- 2026-06-08T16:11:49-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
- Engineering
Requirements
Significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems
Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
Desire to learn more about machine learning systems and infrastructure
Thrive in environments where technical excellence directly drives both business results and research breakthroughs
Experience with high-performance, large-scale distributed systems
Responsibilities
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.
to serve our explosive customer growth, while
enabling breakthrough research
by giving our scientists the high-performance inference infrastructure they need to develop next-generation models.
We tackle complex, distributed systems challenges across multiple accelerator families and emerging AI hardware running in multiple cloud platforms.