Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
$350,000–$850,000 year
Hybrid · New York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff Research Engineer on the Discovery Team responsible for removing bottlenecks toward scientific AGI, scaling research ideas from prototype to production, and building benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for model capabilities in scientific workflows. The role emphasizes end-to-end work across the full stack, with emphasis on language model training/evaluation/inference, distributed training systems, performance optimization, vm/sandboxing, and large-scale data pipelines. Strong candidates have 8+ years of ML research experience, familiarity with large-scale LLM pipelines, and a proven ability to translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions. Desirable extras include reinforcement learning experience, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud deployment at scale; visa sponsorship is available. The role is based in one of Anthropic’s US offices with a location-based hybrid policy requiring presence in office at least 25% of the time.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field
- 8+ years of ML research experience
- Familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
- Experience with performance optimization and distributed computing systems
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment at scale
- Track record of shipping ML systems tackling multi-step reasoning problems
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