Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel — Remote-Friendly

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

Job summary

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI safety company, is hiring a Research Engineer for Takeoff Intel. You will build evaluation and measurement instruments, working across evals infrastructure, data processing, and analysis tooling, with emphasis on shipping and rapid iteration.

The role is a generalist position on a small team; junior and senior levels are being hired. You will collaborate with researchers and partner teams to define what is worth measuring and contribute to internal reports and

Qualifications

• Shipped an evaluation, data product, or research library end to end.
• Prototype fast and are comfortable discarding code.
• Handle messy, large-volume data without over-engineering.
• Have run experiments on large language models.
• Able to 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

Skills

Evaluation end-to-end

LLM experimentation

Data processing pipelines

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI safety company, is hiring a Research Engineer for Takeoff Intel. You will build evaluation and measurement instruments, working across evals infrastructure, data processing, and analysis tooling, with emphasis on shipping and rapid iteration.

The role is a generalist position on a small team; junior and senior levels are being hired. You will collaborate with researchers and partner teams to define what is worth measuring and contribute to internal reports and