Research Engineer / Research Scientist (AI)

Location: Hybrid in New York City, Seattle, or San Francisco; staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $350,000–$500,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable artificial intelligence systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Build and improve large-scale machine learning systems, code, and infrastructure.
• Improve cluster reliability, training throughput, and computational efficiency for large research jobs.
• Design and run scientific experiments in collaboration with research teams.
• Optimize attention mechanisms and compare the compute efficiency of Transformer variants.
• Prepare large datasets for model consumption and scale distributed training jobs to thousands of GPUs.
• Develop fault-tolerance strategies and interactive visualizations for language-model attention.

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Education, training, or professional experience in a field relevant to the role.
• Results-oriented approach, flexibility, strong communication skills, and interest in machine learning research.
• Care about the societal impacts and safety of AI systems.
• Ability to work from one of Anthropic’s US offices at least 25% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-performance, large-scale machine learning systems.
• Experience with GPUs, Kubernetes, PyTorch, or operating system internals.
• Experience with language modeling using Transformers or reinforcement learning.
• Experience with large-scale ETL.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment centered on a small number of large-scale efforts.
• Frequent research discussions and emphasis on communication and impact.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment for collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.