# Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/60e3a18b-8148-4531-b884-1f9a3dd56a3d

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 405000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads infrastructure engineering for Anthropic's Interpretability team, building secure, scalable systems that give researchers safe access to frontier AI models while maintaining privacy and enabling rapid iteration. It's ideal for a senior engineer who thrives bridging research and platform teams, comfortable with ambiguity and experienced in building systems at scale.

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

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, Go, Identity And Access Management, Infrastructure as Code, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Rust, Security Engineering

## Required

- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Rust, Go, or Java)
- Productive with Python
- Significant experience building and operating secure, scalable software infrastructure
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
- Ability to prioritize impactful work and operate with ambiguity
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and professional experience

## Nice to have

- Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP or AWS)
- Kubernetes and networking expertise
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Security engineering experience (identity, auth, access management, sandboxing, red teaming)
- Data warehousing and large-scale storage systems experience
- Compute scheduler and accelerator fleet management
- Developer productivity tooling and observability experience
- Research team tooling experience
- Curiosity about interpretability research and AI safety

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5388612008