Software Engineer, ML Performance and Scaling
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Software Engineer, ML Performance and Scaling
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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 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
Running machine learning (ML) algorithms at our scale often requires solving novel systems problems. As a Performance Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems, and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and robustness of our largest distributed systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and will be excited to grow to become an expert in ML also.
Anthropic's Scaling Team builds the infrastructure that powers our largest scale pre-training runs. We live at the intersection of research, performance, and distributed systems, bringing these skillsets to bear on the most challenging workloads in our industry. We develop and optimize the entire pretraining pipeline that powers Anthropic's AI models, creating unified, reliable infrastructure and frameworks that maximize efficiency across different computing architectures. Our work spans both immediate product deployment and long-term research initiatives to enable training at increasingly large scales, positioning Anthropic at the forefront of responsible AI advancement.
You May Be a Good Fit If You
* Have significant software engineering or machine learning experience, particularly at supercomputing scale
* Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
* Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
* Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
* Want to learn more about machine learning research
* Care about the societal impacts of your work
Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With
* High performance, large-scale ML systems
* GPU/Accelerator programming
* ML framework internals
* OS internals
* Language modeling with transformers
Representative Projects
* Implement low-latency high-throughput sampling for large language models
* Implement GPU kernels to adapt our models to low-precision inference
* Write a custom load-balancing algorithm to optimize serving efficiency
* Build quantitative models of system performance
* Design and implement a fault-tolerant distributed system running with a complex network topology
* Debug kernel-level network latency spikes in a containerized environment
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Annual Salary
The expected salary range for this position is:
£225,000 - £250,000 GBP
Logistics
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.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process
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