Research Engineer: AI Evaluation & Metrics

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Research Engineer for the Takeoff Intel team in San Francisco. You will build evaluation instruments, process large-scale telemetry, and help quantify AI capability growth to inform safety and policy work.

The role spans evals infrastructure, data processing, and analysis tooling with an emphasis on shipping reliable results. We value rapid prototyping, accuracy, and the ability to turn vague questions into running instruments.

Qualifications

• You may be a good fit if you have shipped an evaluation, data product, or research library end to end.
• Prototype fast and are comfortable throwing code away.
• Handle messy, large-volume data without over-engineering.
• Have run experiments on large language models, not just moved their outputs around.
• Can work from a vague question rather than a spec.
• Communicate results clearly and collaborate with researchers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run capability evaluations and measurement instruments at scale
• Build the data and analysis pipelines that turn large volumes of model outputs and telemetry into reliable metrics
• Prototype new instruments fast, validate them, and decide what to keep
• Review and supervise AI-written code as a normal part of the workflow
• Work closely with research scientists on the team and with partner teams to define what's worth measuring
• Contribute to internal write-ups and public reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Research Engineer for the Takeoff Intel team in San Francisco. You will build evaluation instruments, process large-scale telemetry, and help quantify AI capability growth to inform safety and policy work.

The role spans evals infrastructure, data processing, and analysis tooling with an emphasis on shipping reliable results. We value rapid prototyping, accuracy, and the ability to turn vague questions into running instruments.