Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
Anthropic · New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsite$350k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build large-scale ML systems from the ground up for safe, steerable AI.
- Optimize throughput of new attention mechanisms and compare model efficiency.
- Design scientific experiments and create visualizations of token attention.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A results-oriented software engineer excited to build reliable large-scale systems and learn ML research, who collaborates through pairing and cares deeply about safe, beneficial AI.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Significant software engineering experience
- Results-oriented, with bias towards flexibility and impact
- Willing to pick up slack even outside job description
- Enjoy pair programming
- Want to learn more about machine learning research
- Care about societal impacts of work
- remote policy
- Staff expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in office.
- visa sponsorship
- We do sponsor visas, but not successfully for every role and candidate; reasonable effort made if offer is extended.
- hiring process
- Evergreen role kept open ongoing; may not hear back without matching open role; may reapply once per year; team-specific postings take preference.
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google