Research Engineer advancing Claude's computer use capabilities through experiments, RL environments, evaluations, and infrastructure for perception and agentic tasks. Requires Python, ML training/evaluation experience, and a focus on safe AI.
500k – 850k/yr
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About the role
Key Responsibilities
Design and run experiments to improve Claude's perception and agentic capabilities
Develop robust, reliable evaluation frameworks for measuring our models' ability to complete complex computer tasks
Build and improve computer use and vision reinforcement learning training environments
Create pipelines and tools to test and validate complex RL environments
Collaborate with teams across the model training and infrastructure stack to improve our production training setup
Partner with product teams to bring research advances into production
Minimum Qualifications
Software engineering experience and proficiency in Python
Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models
Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style
Care about the societal impacts and safety of your work
Preferred Qualifications
Experience training models for computer use or other agentic capabilities
Experience with reinforcement learning, particularly in long-horizon or sparse-reward settings
Familiarity with multimodal model training
Experience building evaluations or benchmarks for agentic systems
Experience building reinforcement learning environments, simulation systems, or large-scale ML infrastructure
Experience working closely with product teams to drive model improvements
Education
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role
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