Research Engineer, Model Evaluations

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

• Strong Python programming skills, including production or research infrastructure
• Experience building or operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or other infrastructure that needs to be reliable at scale
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining technical results to non-specialists
• Comfort operating in an on-call or production-support capacity when training runs are live
• Care about the societal impacts of your work and an interest in steering powerful AI to be safe and beneficial
• Hands-on experience using large language models such as Claude, including prompting, sampling, and scaffolding
• Background in data visualization and a track record of building dashboards people actually trust and use
• Experience developing robust evaluation metrics for language models
• Experience with observability, monitoring, or experiment-tracking systems
• Background in statistics and experimental design
• Experience with large-scale dataset sourcing, curation, and processing
• Experience running or supporting ML training infrastructure
• A bias toward picking up slack and operating flexibly across team boundaries
• Enjoy pair programming — we love to pair

Representative projects

• Stand up a new eval that tests a specific reasoning capability from scratch — define the task, build the dataset, implement the scoring, validate against known signals, and ship a dashboard that makes the result legible
• Diagnose a mid-training regression: an eval suite returns anomalous numbers, and you need to determine within hours whether it's the model, the harness, the data, or the infrastructure
• Take a flaky distributed eval pipeline and make it boring — better retries, better observability, faster feedback to researchers
• Partner with a research team on a new capability area, helping them articulate what "good" looks like and translating that into measurable artifacts

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$500,000—$850,000 USD

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