anthropic
TPU Kernel Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Posted
- 2026-02-19T10:21:06-05:00
Requirements
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy:
Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Compensation & Benefits
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$280,000
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$850,000 USD
Logistics
Responsibilities
As a TPU Kernel Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across many different ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant portion of this work will involve designing and optimizing kernels for the TPU. You will also provide feedback to researchers about how model changes impact performance. Strong candidates will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and low-level optimization.
About the Company
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
High performance, large-scale ML systems
Designing and implementing kernels for TPUs or other ML accelerators
Understanding accelerators at a deep level, e.g. a background in computer architecture