Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
San Francisco, CA
Posted 16d ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
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