Principal Capacity Engineer, Compute

Overview

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

Anthropic’s Compute team is looking for a Principal Capacity Engineer to lead capacity planning, forecasting, and optimizing of our global infrastructure fleet. You’ll work closely with research, engineering, and finance teams to ensure we have scalable systems for capacity management, high-quality data and insights for planning, and engineering roadmaps that deliver efficiency wins and increase total effective compute. Experience with capacity management for AI workloads is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver capacity management systems for AI workloads on heterogenous infrastructure
• Build and maintain robust attribution of usage and enable in-depth data-driven insights
• Oversee design and implementation of planning tools and systems-level guardrails for capacity planning and quota management
• Build a deep understanding of research and training workloads to accurately model cost-to-serve and cost-to-train
• Proactively identify efficiency opportunities and collaborate with teams across the org to increase total effective compute for Anthropic
• Partner closely with Finance and leadership, providing detailed and clear capacity inputs for financial planning and strategic decision making

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Deadline to apply

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Salary

The expected salary range for this position is $365,000 - $435,000 USD.

Logistics

Equal opportunity and inclusion

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification. We value diverse perspectives and aim to create an inclusive team.

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