Research Scientist, AI Alignment & Reasoning (Remote)

AI Breaking Wire

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 300,000 - 450,000

Full time

14 days+

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Health insurance
Remote-friendly culture
Parental leave
Wellness stipends
SF office spaces

Job summary

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI research company in San Francisco, seeks a Research Scientist to advance reasoning and alignment in large language models. You will design experiments, build RLHF and constitutional AI pipelines, and collaborate with engineers to scale training.

You will publish results and contribute to frontier AI understanding, while enjoying a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-friendly office culture.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. or equivalent practical experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related technical field.
  • Demonstrated publication record in top-tier AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL).
  • Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with PyTorch or JAX.
  • Deep understanding of transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, and alignment methodologies.
  • Passion for AI safety and responsible development of advanced artificial intelligence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and conduct novel experiments to improve the reasoning capabilities and safety alignment of large language models.
  • Develop advanced reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and constitutional AI training pipelines.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to scale training runs across thousands of accelerators.
  • Publish research findings and contribute to the broader scientific understanding of frontier AI models.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
RLHF
Alignment
Research
LLM

Education

Ph.D. or equivalent practical experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related technical field

Tools

JAX

Job description

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI research company in San Francisco, seeks a Research Scientist to advance reasoning and alignment in large language models. You will design experiments, build RLHF and constitutional AI pipelines, and collaborate with engineers to scale training.

You will publish results and contribute to frontier AI understanding, while enjoying a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-friendly office culture.

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