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# TPU Performance Engineer

- **Company:** Anthropic Limited
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Machine Learning, Pair Programming, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_a3d09834337742ba8327835ca454cdd8

## About the Role

* Have significant experience optimizing ML systems for TPUs, GPUs, or other accelerators
 * Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
 * Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
 * Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
 * Want to learn more about machine learning research
 * Care about the societal impacts of your work

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

 * High performance, large-scale ML systems
 * Designing and implementing kernels

## Description

As a TPU Performance Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across many different ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant portion of this work will involve designing and optimizing kernels for the TPU. You will also provide feedback to researchers about how model changes impact performance. Strong candidates will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and low-level optimization.