anthropic

Performance Engineer

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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

$850,000 USD

Logistics

Responsibilities

Running machine learning (ML) algorithms at our scale often requires solving novel systems problems. As a Performance Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems, and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and robustness of our largest distributed systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and will be excited to grow to become an expert in ML also.

You may be a good fit if you:

Have significant software engineering or machine learning experience, particularly at supercomputing scale

Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact

Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)

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

GPU/Accelerator programming

ML framework internals