ML Systems Engineer — RL Training & Finetuning

Anthropic

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 500,000 - 850,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation
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Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an ML Systems Engineer to join the Reinforcement Learning Engineering team in San Francisco. You will develop critical algorithms and infrastructure to train AI models, focusing on performance, robustness, and usability to accelerate research progress.

You’ll work with finetuning researchers using RLHF and related methods, building systems that empower researchers to train and evaluate models safely and efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience.
  • ey Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
  • Interest in ML research and safety and societal impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain and improve RL algorithms and infra used by researchers.
  • Improve speed, reliability, and usability of reinforcement learning systems.
  • Support and empower research teams training production Claude models.

Skills

4+ years software engineering
Distributed systems
Python
RLHF
Pair programming

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an ML Systems Engineer to join the Reinforcement Learning Engineering team in San Francisco. You will develop critical algorithms and infrastructure to train AI models, focusing on performance, robustness, and usability to accelerate research progress.

You’ll work with finetuning researchers using RLHF and related methods, building systems that empower researchers to train and evaluate models safely and efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

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