Research Engineer, Performance RL
$350kGravity Engineering Services Pvt Ltd.
- Research Engineer, Performance RLDepartment: EngineeringJob Type / Location: San FranciscoExperience Required: 3+ yearsPosted On: May 24, 2026About AnthropicAnthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.About the RL TeamsOur Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to all Claude models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. Our work spans several key areas:Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectivelyAdvancing code generation through reinforcement learningPioneering fundamental RL research for large language modelsBuilding scalable RL infrastructure and training methodologiesEnhancing model reasoning capabilitiesWe collaborate closely with Anthropic's alignment and frontier red teams to ensure our systems are both capable and safe. We partner with the applied production training team to bring research innovations into deployed models, and are dedicated to implement our research at scale. Our Reinforcement Learning teams sit at the intersection of cutting-edge research and engineering excellence, with a deep commitment to building high-quality, scalable systems that push the boundaries of what AI can accomplish.About the RoleWe're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to safely write correct, fast code for accelerators.You'll need to know accelerator performance well to turn it into tasks and signals models can learn from. Specifically, you will:Invent, design and implement RL environments and evaluations.Conduct experiments and shape our research roadmap.Deliver your work into training runs.Collaborate with other researchers, engineers, and performance engineering specialists across and outside Anthropic.You may be a good fit if you:Have expertise with accelerators (CUDA, ROCm, Triton, Pallas), ML framework programming (JAX or PyTorch).Have worked across the stack - kernels, model code, distributed systems.Know how to balance research exploration with engineering implementation.Are passionate about AI's potential and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems.Strong candidates may also have:Experience with reinforcement learning.Experience porting ML workloads between different types of accelerators.Familiarity with LLM training methodologies.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:$350,000 - $850,000 USDLogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experienceRequired field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceMinimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the positionLocation-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.Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.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.Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links--visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.How we're differentWe 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.
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