Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training

About Anthropic

Anthropic’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 Role

Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with.

You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models.

Note: For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. This role may require responding to incidents on short-notice, including on weekends.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize post-training techniques at scale on frontier models
• Conduct research to develop and optimize post-training recipes that directly improve production model quality
• Design, build, and run robust, efficient pipelines for model fine-tuning and evaluation
• Develop tools to measure and improve model performance across various dimensions
• Collaborate with research teams to translate emerging techniques into production-ready implementations
• Debug complex issues in training pipelines and model behavior
• Help establish best practices for reliable, reproducible model post-training

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Thrive in controlled chaos and are energised, rather than overwhelmed, when juggling multiple urgent priorities
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Maintain clarity when debugging complex, time-sensitive issues
• Have strong software engineering skills with experience building complex ML systems
• Are comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems and high-performance computing
• Have experience with training, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models
• Can balance research exploration with engineering rigor and operational reliability
• Are adept at analyzing and debugging model training processes
• Enjoy collaborating across research and engineering disciplines
• Can navigate ambiguity and make progress in fast-moving research environments

Strong Candidates May Also

• Have experience with LLMs
• Have a keen interest in AI safety and responsible deployment

We welcome candidates at various experience levels, with a preference for senior engineers who have hands-on experience with frontier AI systems. However, proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks, and distributed computing is required for this role.

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—$500,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: 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.

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.

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