Code RL Research Engineer: AI Hardware & RTL Innovation

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 500,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Equity donation matching

Supportive office environment

Job summary

Anthropic's RL team is hiring a Research Engineer to advance silicon design for Claude models. You will design RL environments, perform RTL verification, and optimize physical design flows across ASIC/FPGA toolchains as part of a cross‑functional research and production loop.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers to ship scalable RL tools, contribute to ML accelerators and high‑performance compute hardware, and help shape the team's roadmap and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Experience with RTL design verification and ASIC/FPGA flows is required.
• Fluency with industry EDA tools and processes.

Responsibilities

• Invent, design, and implement RL environments and evaluations for agentic RTL generation and physical design optimization.
• Work on cross‑cutting RL considerations such as EDA-tool latency optimization and proxy rewards.
• Conduct experiments and shape our roadmap.
• Deliver work into research and production training runs.
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across and outside Anthropic.

Skills

ASIC/FPGA design RTL

RTL verification

PPA optimization

DFT

ECOs

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Field relevant to role

Tools

EDA tools

Job description

Anthropic's RL team is hiring a Research Engineer to advance silicon design for Claude models. You will design RL environments, perform RTL verification, and optimize physical design flows across ASIC/FPGA toolchains as part of a cross‑functional research and production loop.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers to ship scalable RL tools, contribute to ML accelerators and high‑performance compute hardware, and help shape the team's roadmap and impact.