Drimva

Anthropic

Performance Engineer

$280K–$850K

San Francisco, CA +6 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Apr 22, 2024

Location
San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
New York, New York, United States
Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required)
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Experience
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; required field of study is a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship is available, but not guaranteed for every role and candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.

About the job

Identifies systems bottlenecks in large-scale machine learning and builds systems to improve throughput and robustness.

What you'll do

  • Develop systems that optimize throughput and robustness of large distributed systems.
  • Implement performance improvements such as high-throughput sampling, GPU kernels, load balancing, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Build quantitative performance models and debug system-level latency issues.

What they ask for

  • Significant software engineering or machine learning experience, particularly at supercomputing scale.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
  • Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience with high-performance, large-scale ML systems, GPU/Accelerator programming, ML framework internals, or OS internals.
  • Experience with language modeling using transformers.

Pay

$280,000 — $850,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

ML, GPU/Accelerator, transformers

AI focus

Build and optimize systems for large-scale machine learning, including language-model inference and serving.

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