Research Engineer, Agents
Remote • Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY
Posted 6d ago
Job Location
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Agentic systems are a rapidly growing area in AI deployment, with applications in coding, research, customer support, and network security. Anthropic is building a team focused on enhancing Claude's capabilities as an agent, enabling it to handle more complex, long-horizon tasks and coordinate with other agents. This role involves tackling challenges in harness design, agent affordances, infrastructure, and fine-tuning to maximize agent performance. The team is seeking individuals who can demonstrate their skill in getting LLMs to perform complex tasks through projects involving agent design, quantitative experiments, benchmarking, synthetic data generation, or model fine-tuning.
Responsibilities
- Ideate, develop, and compare agent harnesses (e.g., memory, context compression, communication architectures).
- Design and implement rigorous quantitative benchmarks for large-scale agentic tasks.
- Assist with automated evaluation of Claude models and prompts.
- Collaborate with the product organization to solve challenges in applying agents to products.
- Create and optimize data mixes for model training to enhance Claude's performance on agentic tasks.
Requirements
- Experience developing complex agentic systems using LLMs.
- Significant software engineering and ML experience.
- Experience prompting and/or building products with language models.
- Good communication skills and interest in working with researchers on difficult tasks.
- Passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
- Keeps up-to-date with emerging research and industry trends.
- Enjoys pair programming.
Benefits
- Annual compensation range: $500,000 - $850,000 USD
- Visa sponsorship available