Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure· San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Inference Deployment
Classified Tasks (12)
Automate 0%Augment 92%Human-Only 8%
Augment (11)
AI assists, human decides
Design and build deployment infrastructure that moves inference code from merge to production.
technical
Automate inference deployment to operate continuously and unattended under normal conditions.
technical
Orchestrate validation and schedule deployments to balance accelerator usage between validation, deployments, and live user traffic.
operational
Own deployment orchestration that continuously moves validated inference builds into production across GPU, TPU, and Trainium fleets.
technical
Improve capacity-aware deployment scheduling to maximize deployment throughput within constrained accelerator budgets and variable fleet sizes.
analytical
Extend deployment observability by building dashboards and tooling that show what code is running in production, where commits are, and what validation passed.
technical
Drive down cycle time from code merge to production by designing pipeline architectures that minimize serial dependencies and maximize parallelism.
technical
Optimize fleet rollout strategies for large-scale deployments across thousands of GPU, TPU, and Trainium chips to minimize disruption to serving capacity.
operational
Evolve self-service model onboarding so new models can be added to the continuous deployment pipeline without Launch Engineering involvement.
operational
Build systems that adapt continuously to varying fleet sizes, startup times, and correctness requirements.
technical
Ensure model updates reach production safely, quickly, and without disrupting service.
operational
Human-Only (1)
Requires human judgment
Partner with teams owning validation, autoscaling, and model routing to integrate deployment automation with their systems.
communication
Job description
About Anthropic 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. About the Role Our mandate is to make inference deployment boring and unattended. Anthropic serves Claude to millions of users across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainium — and every model update must reach production safely, quickly, and without disrupting service. We're building the systems that make inference deployment continuous and unattended. As a Software Engineer on the Launch Engineering team, you'll design and build the deployment infrastructure that moves inference code from merge to production. This is a resource-constrained optimization problem at its core: validation and deployment consume the same accelerator chips that serve customer traffic — your deploys compete with live user requests for the same hardware. Every model brings different fleet sizes, startup times, and correctness requirements, so the system must adapt continuously. You'll build systems that navigate these constraints — orchestrating validation, scheduling deployments intelligently, and driving down cycle time from merge to production. If you've built deployment systems at scale and gravitate toward the hardest problems at the intersection of automation and resource management, this team will give you an outsized scope to work on them. Responsibilities Own deployment orchestration that continuously moves validated inference builds into production across GPU, TPU, and Trainium fleets, unattended under normal conditions Improve capacity-aware deployment scheduling to maximize deployment throughput against constrained accelerator budgets and variable fleet sizes Extend deployment observability — dashboards and tooling that answer "what code is running in production," "where is my commit," and "what validation passed for this deploy" Drive down cycle time from code merge to production with pipeline architectures that minimize serial dependencies and maximize parallelism Optimize fleet rollout strategies for large-scale deployments across thousands of GPU, TPU, and Trainium chips, minimizing disruption to serving capacity Evolve self-service model onboarding so that new models can be added to the continuous deployment pipeline without Launch Engineering involvement Partner across the Inference organization with teams owning validation, autoscaling, and model routing to integrate deployment automation with their systems You May Be a Good Fit If You Have 5+ years of experience building deployment, release, or delivery infrastructure at scale Strong software engineering skills with experience designing systems that manage complex state machines and multi-stage pipelines Experience with deployment systems where resource constraints shape the design — whether that's fleet capacity, network bandwidth, hardware availability, or coordinated rollout windows A track record of building automation that measurably improves deployment velocity and reliability Proficiency with Kubernetes-based deployments, rolling update mechanics, and container orchestration Comfort working across the stack — from backend services and databases to CLI tools and web UIs Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with oncall engineers, model teams, and infrastructure partners Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience with ML inference or trainin