Research Scientist, AI Alignment & Reasoning (Remote)

AI Breaking Wire; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

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.