Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · AI Research & Engineering · listed March 23, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Not stated
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$350,000 – $850,000 USD
Requirements listed
4
Length
1,090 words

In the posting’s own words

We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to safely write correct, fast code for accelerators.

What it asks for · 4

  • Have expertise with accelerators (CUDA, ROCm, Triton, Pallas), ML framework programming (JAX or PyTorch).
  • Have worked across the stack – kernels, model code, distributed systems.
  • Know how to balance research exploration with engineering implementation.
  • Are passionate about AI's potential and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems.

Also a plus

  • Experience with reinforcement learning.
  • Experience porting ML workloads between different types of accelerators.
  • Familiarity with LLM training methodologies.

Tools and skills named

Models & research
  • Machine learning4×
  • CUDA2×
  • Evaluations2×
  • JAX2×
  • LLM2×
  • PyTorch2×
  • Reinforcement learning2×
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
Product & design
  • Roadmap2×

Words the posting leans on

  • accelerators6×
  • research5×
  • code4×
  • engineering4×
  • experience4×
  • model4×
  • systems4×
  • training4×
  • accelerators cuda2×
  • accelerators familiarity2×
  • balance research2×
  • beneficial systems2×
  • code distributed2×
  • committed developing2×
  • conduct experiments2×
  • cuda rocm2×

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