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AnthropicAnthropicNew York, NY

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

Build and optimize large-scale ML systems for safe, steerable AI, handling infrastructure, experiments, and dev tooling. Requires strong software engineering and interest in ML research.

350k – 500k/yr
HybridML Engineering

About the role

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
  • 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

Compensation

Annual Salary: $350,000 — $500,000 USD

Skills

PyTorchKubernetesGpusTransformersReinforcement LearningDistributed TrainingETLMachine Learning Systems

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