Research Engineer, Product

You care about making safe, steerable, trustworthy systems and are excited to commercialize them. You want to work at the confluence of safety research, capabilities research, and product. As a Research Engineer, you'll touch all parts of our code and infrastructure, whether that means running and designing experiments, working with major partners to improve our AI systems for their use cases, funneling AI safety and capabilities advances together into a single new system, or partnering with the API team to ensure the safety and security of new deployments. You're excited to write code when you understand the research context and more broadly why it's important.
About AnthropicAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

Responsibilities:

• Using Constitutional AI to improve AI safety, reliability, and performance in deployment
• Profiling and improving the compute efficiency of various RL implementations
• Design and manage untrusted execution environments
• Scaling a distributed training job to thousands of GPUs
• Creating a dashboard of evaluations for a variety of AI models and deploying it to customers

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have extensive software engineering experience
• Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
• Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
• Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
• Want to learn more about machine learning research
• Care about the societal impacts and long-term implications of your work

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience with high performance, large-scale ML systems
• Have experience with GPUs, kubernetes, pytorch, OS internals
• Have experience with language modeling with transformers
• Have experience with reinforcement learning
• Have experience with large-scale ETL

Annual Salary (USD)

• The expected salary range for this position is $250k - $450k.

Hybrid policy & US visa sponsorship: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time. We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
Role-specific policy: For this role, we prefer candidates who are able to be in our office more than 25% of the time, though we encourage you to apply even if you don’t think you will be able to do that.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits*Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.- Fertility benefits via Carrot.- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.- Private health, dental, and vision insuran