# Hardware Systems Architect

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2da9e55f-30c3-4c23-9c42-5332bcc667e0

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the system-level design of Anthropic's massive accelerator clusters, making key decisions about interconnect, power, cooling, and datacenter integration across the hardware stack. It suits senior engineers with deep expertise in one hardware domain and a track record of owning large-scale compute or networking architecture from concept through production deployment.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Automotive Ethernet

## Required

- Deep hands-on expertise in at least one core hardware systems domain for large-scale compute or networking
- Experience owning hardware system architecture at machine, rack, row, and cluster scale
- Experience authoring specifications and requirements
- Track record taking hardware from architecture through production deployment
- Experience working with external hardware vendors and reviewing their designs
- Ability to reason about trade-offs across interconnect, power, thermal, and mechanical domains
- Technical leadership with ownership of directional decisions
- Comfort with high autonomy in fast-moving ambiguous environments
- Strong written communication skills

## Nice to have

- 8+ years in hardware systems architecture for hyperscale, HPC, AI/ML, or high-end networking platforms
- Experience with AI accelerator systems and their scale-up / scale-out fabrics
- Familiarity with chip-package-system interface and co-design
- Experience establishing a new engineering function or practice
- Comfort working with AI tools in engineering workflows
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, ME, CS, or related field

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5286362008