Job Application for Performance Engineer

Job Application for Performance Engineer at Anthropic Performance Engineer San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA Apply 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: Running machine learning (ML) algorithms at our scale often requires solving novel systems problems. As a Performance Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems, and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and robustness of our largest distributed systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and will be excited to grow to become an expert in ML also. You may be a good fit if you: - Have significant software engineering or machine learning experience, particularly at supercomputing scale - Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact - Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description - Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!) - Want to learn more about machine learning research - Care about the societal impacts of your work Strong candidates may also have experience with: - High performance, large-scale ML systems - GPU/Accelerator programming - ML framework internals - OS internals - Language modeling with transformers Representative projects: - Implement low-latency high-throughput sampling for large language models - Implement GPU kernels to adapt our models to low-precision inference - Write a custom load-balancing algorithm to optimize serving efficiency - Build quantitative models of system performance - Design and implement a fault-tolerant distributed system running with a complex network topology - Debug kernel-level network latency spi