Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

San Francisco, CA

Posted 16d ago

Remote Work Policy

On-site

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AI Research Engineer

About the job

Anthropic is dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society. As a Research Engineer on the Discovery Team, you will work end-to-end to identify and address key blockers on the path to scientific Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This role involves improving models' abilities to use computers, acting as a laboratory for long-horizon tasks and a crucial component for scientific workflows. You will collaborate with a team of researchers and engineers focused on pushing the scientific frontier.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and remove bottlenecks across the full stack to enable progress toward scientific AGI.
  • Develop approaches for long-horizon task completion and complex reasoning critical for scientific discovery.
  • Scale research ideas from prototype to production.
  • Create benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for model capabilities in scientific workflows and computer use.
  • Implement distributed training systems and performance optimizations for large-scale model development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of ML research experience.
  • Familiarity with large-scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
  • Ability to iterate on immediate blockers towards long-term goals.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks in complex systems.
  • Capacity to translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions.
  • Track record of shipping ML systems that tackle challenging multi-step reasoning problems.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range: $350,000 - $850,000 USD
  • Visa sponsorship available

About Anthropic

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