Research Engineer, RL Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · AI Research & Engineering · listed October 15, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
4+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$500,000 – $850,000 USD
Requirements listed
7
Length
1,002 words
In the posting’s own words
You want to build the cutting-edge systems that train AI models like Claude. You're excited to work at the frontier of machine learning, implementing and improving advanced techniques to create ever more capable, reliable and steerable AI. As an ML Systems Engineer on our Reinforcement Learning Engineering team, you'll be responsible for the critical algorithms and infrastructure that our researchers depend on to train models. Your work will directly enable breakthroughs in AI capabilities and safety. You'll focus obsessively on improving the performance, robustness, and usability of these systems so our research can progress as quickly as possible. You're energized by the challenge of supporting and empowering our research team in the mission to build beneficial AI systems.
What it asks for · 7
- Have 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Like working on systems and tools that make other people more productive
- Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Want to learn more about machine learning research
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
Also a plus
- High performance, large scale distributed systems
- Large scale LLM training
- Python
- Implementing LLM finetuning algorithms, such as RLHF
Tools and skills named
Models & research
- Reinforcement learning4×
- Fine-tuning3×
- Machine learning3×
- LLM2×
Languages
- Python2×
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems
Ways of working
- Slack
Words the posting leans on
- systems10×
- models6×
- training6×
- algorithms4×
- learning4×
- research4×
- researchers4×
- build3×
- finetuning3×
- implementing3×
- improving3×
- train models3×
- building2×
- claude2×
- detect2×
- engineering2×
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