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AnthropicAnthropicSan Francisco, CA

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Research Engineer works end-to-end to remove bottlenecks toward scientific AGI, focusing on long-horizon reasoning, computer use, and model capabilities. Requires 8+ years ML experience, expertise in language model pipelines, distributed systems, and collaborative problem-solving.

350k – 850k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEAI Research

About the role

About the Team

Our team is focused on building an AI scientist capable of solving long-term reasoning challenges and pushing the scientific frontier. We're currently improving models' abilities to use computers as a laboratory for long-horizon tasks and scientific workflows.

About the Role

As a Research Engineer, you will work end-to-end to identify and address key blockers on the path to scientific AGI. Strong candidates have familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference, and enjoy collaborative problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Working across the full stack to identify and remove bottlenecks preventing progress toward scientific AGI
  • Develop approaches to address long-horizon task completion and complex reasoning challenges essential for scientific discovery
  • Scaling research ideas from prototype to production
  • Create benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure model capabilities in scientific workflows and computer use
  • Implement distributed training systems and performance optimizations to support large-scale model development

You may be a good fit if you

  • Have 8+ years of ML research experience
  • Are familiar with large scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
  • Enjoy obsessively iterating on immediate blockers towards long-term goals
  • Thrive working collaboratively to solve problems
  • Have expertise in performance optimization and distributed computing systems
  • Show strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks in complex systems
  • Can translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions
  • Have a track record of shipping ML systems that tackle challenging multi-step reasoning problems

Strong candidates may also have

  • Expertise with performance optimization for language model inference and training
  • Experience with computer use automation and agentic AI systems
  • A history working on reinforcement learning approaches for complex task completion
  • Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment at scale
  • Demonstrated ability to work across multiple domains (language modeling, systems engineering, scientific computing)
  • Experience with VM/sandboxing/container deployment and large-scale data processing
  • Experience working with large scale data problem solving and infrastructure
  • Published research or practical experience in scientific AI applications or long-horizon reasoning

Logistics

Education requirements: 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. Some roles may require more time in our offices.

Skills

PyTorchTransformersDistributed TrainingKubernetesDockerPerformance OptimizationReinforcement LearningLanguage ModelsInference OptimizationData Pipelines

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