# Senior Software Engineer, Inference at Anthropic

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- **Company:** Anthropic (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/anthropic)
- **Location:** Ireland
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Distributed systems, Machine learning systems, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Load balancing, Request routing, Inference optimization, Batching, Caching strategies, Observability, Software engineering, Cloud infrastructure
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-10-13
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-10-14
- **Listed until:** 2026-12-12
- **Status:** Active
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4641822008 (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/senior-software-engineer-inference-anthropic

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain inference systems that serve models at scale, covering request routing, autoscaling, and orchestration.
- Implement batching, caching and other inference optimizations to improve latency and cost-efficiency.
- Support integration of new accelerator hardware and manage multi-region deployments.
- Develop production-grade deployment pipelines, observability and tools for model releases and monitoring.
- Analyse production telemetry to diagnose performance issues and tune systems for real workloads.
- Work closely with research, product and SRE teams to enable both stable production and experimental research use cases.

Requirements:
- Significant software engineering experience, especially with distributed systems and production services.
- Practical knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), Kubernetes and orchestration tooling.
- Familiarity with LLM inference strategies (batching, caching), performance tuning and multi-accelerator setups.
- Proficiency in Python or Rust; experience shipping production code and building deployment pipelines.
- Strong debugging, observability and system design skills; ability to operate across engineering and research teams.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; motivated by impact, reliability and technical excellence.

## Responsibilities

The Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users globally. This includes managing the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators.

## Requirements

Candidates should have significant software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure. A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required, along with proficiency in languages like Python or Rust.

## FAQ

- **Is this Senior Software Engineer, Inference role still open?** It was posted on 2026-10-13 and is listed as active on The Stack. Confirm on Anthropic's application page before applying.
- **Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Anthropic's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Ireland. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Distributed systems, Machine learning systems, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Load balancing, Request routing, Inference optimization, Batching, Caching strategies, Observability, Software engineering, Cloud infrastructure.

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