Research Engineer: RL Environments & Safe AI

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 500,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for a Research Engineer to contribute to developing safe and capable AI systems. In this role, you will design training environments, evaluate AI capabilities, and work collaboratively across teams to implement cutting-edge research in reinforcement learning. Candidates should demonstrate strong software engineering skills and a passion for impactful AI. Compensation ranges from $500,000 to $850,000 USD annually, reflecting the importance and complexity of the work.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills and can build robust infrastructure.
• Passionate about the potential impact of AI and committed to developing safe systems.
• Good research taste or senior technical experience identifying relevant aspects.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of agentic environments.
• Build rigorous evaluations that measure real capability.
• Collaborate across research and infrastructure teams.
• Debug and iterate across research and production ML stacks.
• Contribute to research culture through collaboration.

Skills

Impact-driven work

Strong software engineering skills

Good research taste

Ability to work with uncertainty

Experience in AI and safety

Pair programming

Job description

Anthropic is looking for a Research Engineer to contribute to developing safe and capable AI systems. In this role, you will design training environments, evaluate AI capabilities, and work collaboratively across teams to implement cutting-edge research in reinforcement learning. Candidates should demonstrate strong software engineering skills and a passion for impactful AI. Compensation ranges from $500,000 to $850,000 USD annually, reflecting the importance and complexity of the work.