Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure Interpretability

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will build and own secure research environments, data systems, and compute tooling. You will improve data access, storage lifecycle management, scheduling, observability, developer experience, and dependable audit pipelines while coordinating with security, compute, storage, and platform specialists.

Requirements

  • Python, Rust, Go, or Java proficiency
  • Python productivity
  • Secure and scalable infrastructure experience
  • Cloud systems experience
  • Distributed-systems experience
  • Developer tooling experience
  • Cross-functional communication
  • Interpretability research knowledge
  • AI safety knowledge

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own shared research infrastructure
  • Lead cross-functional infrastructure efforts
  • Discover and resolve developer-experience issues
  • Build dependable audit pipelines from interpretability methods
  • Design hardened research environments
  • Build lifecycle management for research data
  • Build self-service scheduling and capacity tooling
  • Create observability for infrastructure regressions

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
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