# Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Velocity

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/455b534a-6c7f-4955-b7e9-b515be3027ce

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

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: New York, NY
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 405000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

Anthropic seeks a Staff engineer to lead technical strategy for developer productivity across its inference platform, which runs Claude on heterogeneous accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, Trainium). The role suits someone with deep infrastructure or platform experience who thrives designing systems that remove friction from engineering workflows.

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

## Skills named

CI/CD, CUDA, Kubernetes

## Required

- 8+ years software engineering experience as a technical lead on infrastructure, platform, or developer productivity teams
- Deep systems engineering background with hands-on ability in toolchains, CI/CD, and developer workflow optimization
- Experience owning development environments or toolchains for compute-intensive workloads like ML training or inference
- Proven depth in at least one accelerator ecosystem (CUDA/GPU, TPU, or Trainium/AWS Neuron)
- Track record defining and using engineering metrics to drive measurable velocity improvements
- Experience driving technical alignment across organizational boundaries
- Strong written and verbal communication with ability to influence without formal authority

## Nice to have

- ML compiler toolchain experience (XLA, Triton, NeuronX) or accelerator driver/firmware management at scale
- Background building shared development environments for hardware-dependent workflows
- CI/CD systems experience at scale with accelerator hardware
- Kubernetes-based development and job scheduling environment familiarity
- Prior tech lead experience on developer productivity or platform engineering teams at AI/ML companies

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5257650008