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Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Sampling Path

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,

Company

Anthropic

Location

San Francisco, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-09T19:17:24+00:00

Anthropic is hiring a staff-level software engineer for its Safeguards ML Sampling Path team, which runs the production services every Claude request passes through on the token generation path. The work covers backend design and operation, streaming contracts with the API and inference engines, latency and reliability ownership through SLOs, error budgets and incident response, and safe canaried rollouts. The posting wants experience running high-QPS systems at global scale, distributed-systems fundamentals, and graceful-degradation design; 8+ years of industry experience and familiarity with LLM inference are listed as pluses.