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AnthropicAI/ML Research

Research Engineer

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-10 years

Compensation

$350K - $500K per year

Posted

7h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

As a Research Engineer at Anthropic, you will be instrumental in building and scaling large-scale machine learning systems from the ground up. This role involves improving infrastructure reliability and efficiency, designing and running scientific experiments, and enhancing development tooling, all with a focus on creating safe and steerable AI.

You want to build large scale ML systems from the ground up. You care about making safe, steerable, trustworthy systems. As a Research Engineer, you'll touch all parts of our code and infrastructure, whether that's making the cluster more reliable for our big jobs, improving throughput and efficiency, running and designing scientific experiments, or improving our dev tooling. You're excited to write code when you understand the research context and more broadly why it's important.


You may be a good fit if you:

  • Have significant software engineering experience

  • 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

  • GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals

  • Language modeling with transformers

  • Reinforcement learning

  • Large-scale ETL

Representative projects:

  • Optimizing the throughput of a new attention mechanism

  • Comparing the compute efficiency of two Transformer variants

  • Making a Wikipedia dataset in a format models can easily consume

  • Scaling a distributed training job to thousands of GPUs

  • Writing a design doc for fault tolerance strategies

  • Creating an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language model

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.


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.


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.

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Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Software Engineering • 1+ yrs
Machine Learning • 1+ yrs
Large-scale ML Systems • 1+ yrs
GPUs • 1+ yrs
Kubernetes • 1+ yrs
Pytorch • 1+ yrs
Transformers • 1+ yrs
Reinforcement Learning • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-10 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Software Engineering

Industries

Technology & IT
Software & SaaS

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

$350K - $500K per year

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Paid Parental Leave
Flexible Working Hours
Visa Sponsorship

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationSan Francisco, California, United States
Work typeHybrid
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium7/10
physicalLow2/10
cognitiveHigh9/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityHigh8/10
uncertaintyHigh8/10
communicationHigh8/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Anthropic

Team size

Growing team

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

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.

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Research Engineer

San Francisco, California, United StatesFull Time