# Pre-training Distributed Systems Tech Lead / Manager

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b4701f7c-4061-4a51-8605-e9972c91fb61

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 500000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the infrastructure team that measures what Anthropic's AI models can do, owning the distributed systems that run evaluations safely and reliably at scale. This role suits experienced engineering leaders with a track record building fault-tolerant systems who care deeply about measurement accuracy and can translate between research needs and infrastructure.

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

## Skills named

Cloud Infrastructure, Python, Rust

## Required

- 1+ years managing engineers or tech-lead-with-reports experience
- Led end-to-end technical projects on large-scale distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and Rust
- Built high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems on cloud or on-prem accelerator fleets
- Ability to communicate with researchers and translate their needs to infrastructure
- Committed to safe AI development

## Nice to have

- Experience with LLM inference or training infrastructure
- Worked on eval or benchmarking systems, especially agentic evals with sandboxed execution
- Statistical literacy including variance, confidence intervals, and sample-size sufficiency
- Experience with observability and regression detection on time-series metrics

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5367417008