AnthropicSan Francisco, CAResearch Engineer implements and scales post-training techniques like Constitutional AI and RLHF for production AI models, optimizing capabilities, alignment, and safety. Requires strong Python skills, ML systems experience, and ability to handle complex distributed training pipelines.
We welcome candidates at various experience levels, with a preference for senior engineers who have hands-on experience with frontier AI systems. However, proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks, and distributed computing is required for this role.
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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.
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Research Engineer optimizes and scales production pretraining of frontier AI models, handling performance, debugging, experiments, and on-call incidents. Requires expertise in JAX, TPU, PyTorch, or large-scale ML systems with a 50/50 research-engineering balance.