Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra
Humanloop
In this role you will own the node lifecycle strategy for multi-cloud AI clusters and drive scalable infrastructure for Anthropic’s frontier research. You’ll shape hardware health and repair automation, collaborating with research and product teams to maximize compute efficiency. This is a hands-on leadership role at hyperscale, focusing on reliability, performance, and cross-team alignment to support safe and scalable AI development. You will help scale Claude by enabling robust, automated infrastructure across clouds and accelerators.
Pay / Benefits- competitive compensation and benefits
- optional equity donation matching
- generous vacation and parental leave
- flexible working hours
- lovely office space
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for node lifecycle management including ingestion, bring-up, health checks, and automated repair
- Drive cross-team initiatives to build and scale AI clusters across multiple clouds and accelerator families
- Design and operate systems that detect, isolate, and remediate unhealthy hardware automatically to increase fleet MTBI and reduce stranded capacity
- Define infrastructure architecture to solve hard problems, directly or via teams
- Collaborate with cloud providers and internal research/product teams to shape long-term compute, data, and infrastructure strategy
- Establish and evolve operational excellence practices (incident response, postmortem culture, on-call)
- Mentor and coach engineers to grow technical capability within the team
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms (Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or Python) and Terraform experience
- Hands-on experience with machine learning accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, or Trainium)
- Track record leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams
- Ability to align senior stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels
- cross-functional collaboration
- clear communication
- technical mentorship
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS/GCP/Azure
Reference: WJ-747_30185998