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Anthropic

Performance Engineer, GPU

new york, NY

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About this opportunity

Anthropic lists this Performance Engineer, GPU opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

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

Pioneering the next generation of AI requires breakthrough innovations in GPU performance and systems engineering. As a GPU Performance Engineer, you'll architect and implement the foundational systems that power Claude and push the frontiers of what's possible with large language models. You'll be responsible for maximizing GPU utilization and performance at unprecedented scale, developing cutting‑edge optimizations that directly enable new model capabilities and dramatically improve inference efficiency.

Working at the intersection of hardware and software, you'll implement state‑of‑the‑art techniques from custom kernel development to distributed system architectures. Your work will span the entire stack—from low‑level tensor core optimizations to orchestrating thousands of GPUs in perfect synchronization.

Strong candidates will have a track record of delivering transformative GPU performance improvements in production ML systems and will be excited to shape the future of AI infrastructure alongside world‑class researchers and engineers.

You might be a good fit if you

Have deep experience with GPU programming and optimization at scale

Are impact‑driven, passionate about delivering measurable performance breakthroughs

Can navigate complex systems from hardware interfaces to high‑level ML frameworks

Enjoy collaborative problem‑solving and pair programming

Want to work on state‑of‑the‑art language models with real‑world impact

Care about the societal impacts of your work

Thrive in ambiguous environments where you define the path forward

Strong candidates may also have experience with

GPU Kernel Development: CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, Flash Attention, tensor core optimization

Performance Engineering: Kernel fusion, memory bandwidth optimization, profiling with Nsight

Representative projects

Co‑design attention mechanisms and algorithms for next‑generation hardware architectures

Develop custom kernels for emerging quantization formats and mixed‑precision techniques

Design distributed communication strategies for multi‑node GPU clusters

Optimize end‑to‑end training and inference pipelines for frontier language models

Build performance modeling frameworks to predict and optimize GPU utilization

Implement kernel fusion strategies to minimize memory bandwidth bottlenecks

Create resilient systems for planet‑scale distributed training infrastructure

Profile and eliminate performance bottlenecks in production serving infrastructure

Partner with hardware vendors to influence future accelerator capabilities and software stacks

The expected salary range for this position is $280,000 - $850,000 USD .

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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Worksite address

new york, NY, 10261, US

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