✦ Luna Orbit — System Administration

Software Engineer, Sandboxing (Systems)

at Anthropic

📍 San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY Hybrid Posted March 07, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience mid
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category System Administration

This role involves optimizing virtualization stacks and low-level system components to enhance AI compute infrastructure. The engineer will work on kernel modules, performance tuning, and virtualization technologies.

  • Optimize virtualization stack
  • Design kernel modules and drivers
  • Investigate performance bottlenecks
  • Collaborate with cloud teams
  • Develop monitoring tools

Focus on Linux kernel development, virtualization (KVM, Xen, QEMU), system programming in C/C++, performance profiling, and cloud infrastructure integration.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level systems engineer with strong expertise in Linux kernel development, virtualization technologies like KVM and QEMU, and low-level system programming. They should have experience optimizing compute performance and working with cloud infrastructure.

Linux kernel developmentvirtualization technologiesC/C++ programmingsystem performance optimizationkernel modulesLinux resource managementprofiling and debuggingcloud infrastructure
RustGPU virtualizationeBPF programmingcontainer technologieshardware accelerationperformance optimization for ML/AI
KVMXenQEMUDockerOCILinuxcloud providers
Linux kernel developmentsystem programmingvirtualization technologiesKVMXenQEMUCC++RustLinux resource managementprofilingdebuggingcloud infrastructure
Linux kernel developmentsystem programmingvirtualization technologiesKVMXenQEMUCC++RustLinux resource managementLinux schedulingLinux memory managementprofilingdebuggingkernel modulesdriverssystem-level componentscloud engineeringhardware optimizationperformance tuningGPU virtualizationeBPFcontainer technologiesDockerOCIkernel tracingsecurity hardening
collaborationproblem-solvingresults-orientedtechnical communicationadaptability
Industry AI & Machine Learning
Job Function Systems programming and virtualization optimization for AI infrastructure
Linux kernel developmentsystem programmingvirtualization technologiesKVMXenQEMUCC++RustLinux resource managementLinux schedulingLinux memory managementprofilingdebuggingkernel modulescloud infrastructureC/C++performance optimization

Lack of Linux kernel development experience, No virtualization experience, No C/C++ or Rust skills, Unfamiliarity with cloud infrastructure

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