Staff Devops Engineer Jobs at Anthropic with Visa Sponsorship
Staff DevOps Engineer jobs at Anthropic involve building and maintaining the infrastructure behind some of the most computationally intensive AI research in the industry. The company has a demonstrated track record of sponsoring work visas for engineering roles, including H-1B visa, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visa petitions.
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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
Anthropic’s performance and scaling teams focus on making the most efficient and impactful use of our compute resources, be it inference or training. As an Engineering Manager on these teams you will be responsible for ensuring you and your team are identifying and removing bottlenecks, building robust and durable solutions, and maximizing the efficiency of our systems. You also will help bring clarity, focus, and context to your teams in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide front-line leadership of engineering efforts to improve model performance and scale our inference and training systems
- Become familiar with the team’s technical stack enough to make targeted contributions as an individual contributor
- Manage day-to-day execution of the team's work
- Prioritize the team’s work and manage projects in a highly dynamic, fast paced environment
- Coach and support your reports in understanding, and pursuing, their professional growth
- Maintain a deep understanding of the team's technical work and its implications for AI safety
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Have 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly performance or distributed systems
- Have a background in machine learning, AI, or a similar related technical field
- Are deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and are committed to ensuring their safe development
- Excel at building strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Are a quick learner, capable of understanding and contributing to discussions on complex technical topics
- Have experience managing teams through periods of rapid growth and change
- Are a quick study: this team sits at the intersection of a large number of different complex technical systems that you’ll need to understand (at a high level of abstraction) to be effective
Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With
- High performance, large-scale ML systems
- GPU/Accelerator programming
- ML framework internals
- OS internals
- Language modeling with transformers
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$500,000—$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! 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.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Document infrastructure scale in concrete terms
Anthropic evaluates Staff DevOps candidates on experience managing large-scale distributed systems and GPU compute clusters. Quantify your impact with specifics like cluster size, uptime improvements, or deployment frequency before your first interview.
Target roles inside Anthropic's platform engineering teams
Anthropic structures its infrastructure hiring around model training pipelines and safety-critical deployment environments. Applying directly to teams building internal developer tooling or compute orchestration increases your alignment with active headcount and sponsor-ready requisitions.
Verify your visa category matches the petition type
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas. If you're Australian, the E-3 avoids the H-1B lottery entirely and has a cap that's never been filled. Confirm your nationality eligibility before accepting an offer so the legal team files the right petition.
Align your degree field to the specialty occupation standard
USCIS requires that a Staff DevOps role qualify as a specialty occupation, meaning your degree must be directly relevant. A background in computer science, systems engineering, or computer engineering supports the petition far more cleanly than an unrelated field with on-the-job experience.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open Staff DevOps roles at Anthropic
Anthropic posts infrastructure and platform roles across multiple channels at varying stages of approval. Migrate Mate lets you filter specifically for Anthropic openings by visa type so you're applying to roles that are actively being sponsored, not just listed.
Negotiate your start date around H-1B filing windows
If you need a new H-1B, USCIS only accepts cap-subject petitions in April for an October 1 start. Build this into your offer negotiation early so your start date doesn't force a gap in status or require a costly premium processing upgrade.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Anthropic sponsor H-1B visas for Staff Devops Engineers?
Yes, Anthropic sponsors H-1B visas for Staff DevOps Engineers. The company has a consistent track record of supporting visa petitions for engineering and infrastructure roles. Beyond H-1B, Anthropic also sponsors H-1B1 visas for eligible Chilean and Singaporean nationals, and E-3 visas for Australian citizens, giving qualified candidates multiple pathways depending on nationality.
How do I apply for Staff Devops Engineer jobs at Anthropic?
Applications go through Anthropic's careers page, where Staff DevOps and platform engineering roles are listed under engineering or infrastructure. You can also browse and filter Anthropic's open visa-sponsored roles by position type directly on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles confirmed to be open to sponsorship. Tailor your resume to highlight distributed systems, compute infrastructure, and CI/CD pipeline experience at scale.
Which visa types does Anthropic use for Staff Devops Engineer roles?
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas for engineering roles including Staff DevOps Engineers. H-1B is the most common path and applies to most nationalities, but is subject to the annual lottery. H-1B1 and E-3 bypass the lottery entirely and are available to Singaporean, Chilean, and Australian nationals respectively, making them faster options when eligible.
What qualifications does Anthropic expect for Staff Devops Engineer roles?
Anthropic typically expects substantial experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes or similar container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines in high-throughput research or AI environments. Staff-level roles generally require a bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a closely related field, which also supports the USCIS specialty occupation requirement needed for H-1B sponsorship. Experience with GPU compute or ML training infrastructure is a strong differentiator.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a role at Anthropic?
For cap-subject H-1B petitions, the process starts in March with lottery registration and, if selected, allows an October 1 employment start. Premium processing through USCIS can accelerate adjudication to roughly 15 business days once the petition is filed. E-3 and H-1B1 visas are processed at U.S. consulates and generally move faster, often within a few weeks of the interview, making them worth prioritizing if you're nationality-eligible.