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Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer at Anthropic

Department: AI Research & Engineering

Compensation

$500,000 – $850,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Anthropic is hiring a Staff Engineer for its Pre-training team to develop large language models. The role focuses on designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed data-processing systems, including tokenization, deduplication, chunking, data quality validation, and end-to-end pipelines that convert web-scale corpora into training-ready datasets. Candidates should have at least five years of professional experience, strong software engineering and distributed-systems skills, experience with Apache Spark and language-model training infrastructure, and an advanced degree in computer science or a related field. The role offers an annual salary of $500,000–$850,000 USD, requires office presence at least 25% of the time, and may offer visa sponsorship.

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