# Software Engineer, AI Reliability

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $325k – $485k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, SRE, Observability, Monitoring, High-Availability Infrastructure, Incident Response, Gpus, Tpus, Rdma, Chaos Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-02-12

> Software Engineer focused on AI reliability engineering, improving robustness of Claude's serving infrastructure across SDK to accelerators. Partners cross-team on SLOs, monitoring, high-availability systems, incident response, and safeguard models.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop appropriate Service Level Objectives for large language model serving systems, balancing availability and latency with development velocity.
- Design and implement monitoring and observability systems across the token path.
- Assist in the design and implementation of high-availability serving infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers.
- Lead incident response for critical AI services, ensuring rapid recovery, thorough incident reviews, and systematic improvements.
- Support the reliability of safeguard model serving—critical for both site reliability and Anthropic's safety commitments.

## You may be a good fit if you
- Have strong distributed systems, infrastructure, or reliability backgrounds—we're looking for reliability-minded software engineers and SREs.
- Are curious and brave—comfortable jumping into unfamiliar systems during an incident and helping drive resolution even when you don't have deep expertise yet.
- Think holistically about how systems compose and where the seams are.
- Can build lasting relationships across teams—our engagement model depends on being welcomed as teammates, not outsiders with opinions.
- Care about users and feel ownership over outcomes, even for systems you don't own.
- Have excellent communication and collaboration skills—you'll be partnering across the entire company.
- Bring diverse experience—the team's strength comes from people who've built product stacks, scaled databases, run massive distributed systems, and everything in between.

## Strong candidates may also
- Have been an SRE, Production Engineer, or in similar reliability-focused roles on large scale systems.
- Have experience operating large-scale model serving or training infrastructure (>1000 GPUs).
- Have experience with one or more ML hardware accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, Trainium).
- Understand ML-specific networking optimizations like RDMA and InfiniBand.
- Have expertise in AI-specific observability tools and frameworks.
- Have experience with chaos engineering and systematic resilience testing.
- Have contributed to open-source infrastructure or ML tooling.

## Logistics
**Annual Salary:** $325,000—$485,000 USD

**Education 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.

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