<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>Anthropic trains and serves frontier AI models on some of the largest and most diverse accelerator fleets in the world, and the hardware those models run on is one of the most direct levers we have on capability, cost, and reliability. Our Hardware Systems team owns the system-level architecture of that compute — from the package boundary out through boards, racks, interconnect, power, cooling, and the datacenter interface.</p> <p>We re hiring senior hardware systems architects and technical leads who can work broadly across the hardware stack and go deep where it s needed, and who have the judgment to make and own directional calls — what to build, what to buy, what to co-design with a partner. You ll set architecture, write the specs that partners and internal teams build against, and own the validation and qualification strategy that proves the result.</p> <p>The skillsets we need span power, cooling, mechanical, interconnect, signal integrity, data and control plane, system management, reliability and serviceability — applied across networking, compute, storage, and accelerator systems.</p> <p>You ll work closely with our ML performance, infrastructure software, supply chain, and datacenter teams, and directly with hardware vendors and partners across the stack. And because this is Anthropic, you ll have Claude as a genuine collaborator — we expect this team to push on what AI-assisted hardware design and review can look like.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Own system path-finding and architecture for your domain across the breadth of compute Anthropic deploys — from concept and requirements through spec, design review, and deployment — and act as a reviewer and thought partner across the others.</li> <li>Write and own high-level requirements and specifications — system, board, interface, rack — that partners and internal teams build against.</li> <li>Review partner and vendor designs against our requirements, make the build / buy / co-design calls with supply chain and partnership teams, and surface misalignment or schedule risk early enough to act on it.</li> <li>Drive the interconnect and networking architecture that ties our systems together — scale-up and scale-out fabrics, NICs and switches, optics, and topology.</li> <li>Drive board-, chassis-, and system-level architecture with our partners — major component placement, PCB architecture, connector and cable design, and power and thermal budgeting — at the chassis, rack, and data-hall level.</li> <li>Develop performance simulations, hardware models, and "what-if" scenarios to evaluate and choose between candidate hardware architectures.</li> <li>Define validation, bring-up, and qualification strategy for new platforms — including the telemetry and reliability targets they need to hit in the fleet — and track the technology roadmaps and vendor landscape that shape what we deploy in the short and long term.</li> <li>Partner with ML performance and infrastructure software teams so hardware decisions land well for the workloads that actually run on them.</li> <li>Help shape how hardware engineering operates at Anthropic — develop and apply AI-assisted approaches to design, spec review, and validation; establish review forums, spec standards, and partner engagement.</li> </ul> <h2>Minimum qualifications</h2> <ul> <li>Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one core hardware-systems domain (e.g., interconnect, power, thermal) for large-scale compute or networking systems.</li> <li>Experience owning hardware system architec

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