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Research Engineer, RL Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labonsite$500k–$850k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build critical algorithms and infrastructure that train Claude models.
  • Improve speed, reliability and ease-of-use of finetuning systems.
  • Diagnose slowdowns and make training work on new architectures.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

A results-oriented systems builder who loves making researchers more productive through pairing and impact-focused work, eager to learn ML research and motivated by building safe, beneficial AI.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • Experience with high performance, large scale distributed systems
  • Experience with large scale LLM training
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience implementing LLM finetuning algorithms such as RLHF
remote policy
Expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
visa sponsorship
We do sponsor visas, with reasonable effort to get a visa if an offer is made

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
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