Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Compute Capacity

About this role

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
Anthropic manages one of the largest and fastest-growing accelerator fleets in the industry — spanning multiple accelerator families and clouds. The Accelerator Capacity Engineering (ACE) team is responsible for making sure every chip in that fleet is accounted for, well-utilized, and efficiently allocated. We own the data, tooling, and operational systems that let Anthropic plan, measure, and maximize utilization across first-party and third-party compute.


As an engineer on ACE, you will build the production systems that power this work: data pipelines that ingest and normalize telemetry from heterogeneous cloud environments, observability tooling that gives the org real-time visibility into fleet health, and performance instrumentation that measures how efficiently every major workload uses the hardware it’s running on. You will be expected to write production-quality code every day, operate alongside Kubernetes-native infrastructure at meaningful scale, and directly influence decisions around one of Anthropic’s largest areas of spend.


You’ll collaborate closely with research engineering, infrastructure, inference, and finance teams. The work requires someone who can move between data engineering, systems engineering, and observability with comfort — and who thrives in a high-autonomy, high-ambiguity environment.


What This Team Owns
The team’s work spans three functional areas. Depending on your background and interests, you’ll focus primarily in one, but the boundaries are fluid and the problems overlap:

• Data infrastructure — collecting, normalizing, and serving the fleet-...