Principal Engineer (Capacity/Compute)

Join Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, as a Principal Engineer in the Capacity Engineering team. You will be responsible for building production systems that optimize infrastructure utilization, improve efficiency, and connect costs to business activities. This role requires expertise in data engineering, systems engineering, and observability, and offers a high-autonomy, high-ambiguity work environment.

• Concevoir et construire des systèmes de production qui alimentent le travail de l'équipe d'ingénierie de capacité, y compris des pipelines de données qui ingèrent et normalisent la télémétrie.
• Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes d'ingénierie de recherche, d'infrastructure, d'inférence et de finance pour maximiser l'utilisation des ressources informatiques.
• Diriger les programmes d'efficacité, y compris la récupération de capacité inutilisée et l'utilisation au niveau des tâches.

• A strong track record building and operating production systems. This is a hands-on engineering role with a devops flavor
• Python and SQL at production quality. Most pipeline code is Python; the presentation layer is BigQuery SQL, including table-valued functions and views. Both need to be idiomatic, well-tested, and maintainable
• Experience with observability tooling stack, including Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana, including writing recording rules and building monitoring that engineering teams rely on
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure) and its operations
• Ability to gather your own requirements and work across organizational boundaries in an ambiguous environment with limited direction
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this
• Experience with capacity planning, resource management, or cost attribution systems at a hyperscaler or in a large-scale machine learning environment. Time spent in product engineering and developer experience absolutely counts here
• Scheduling and packing efficiency experience, or profiling-driven optimization of large distributed workloads
• Multi-cloud data ingestion experience, especially normalizing billing exports, reservation APIs, on-demand capacity reservations, commitments, and vendor telemetry from providers with different billing arrangements
• Total cost of ownership and forecasting experience, including decomposing whether infrastructure growth is causal or correlated with business drivers
• Accelerator infrastructure familiarity. GPU metrics (DCGM), TPU utilization, Trainium power and utilization metrics, or experience with machine learning training and inference systems at the hardware level
• Experience building internal data products with self-service access, schema contracts, API serving, documentation, and discoverability. Not just pipelines, but thinking about how the data gets consumed
• Storage efficiency, retention, and lifecycle program experience at exabyte scale