Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. You want to build large scale ML systems from the ground up. You care about making safe, steerable, trustworthy systems. As a Research Engineer, you'll touch all parts of our code and infrastructure, whether that's making the cluster more reliable for our big jobs, improving throughput and efficiency, running and designing scientific experiments, or improving our dev tooling. You're excited to write code when you understand the research context and more broadly why it's important. Note: This is an "evergreen" role that we keep open on an ongoing basis. We receive many applications for this position, and you may not hear back from us directly if we do not currently have an open role on any of our teams that matches your skills and experience. We encourage you to apply despite this, as we are continually evaluating for top talent to join our team. You are also welcome to reapply as you gain more experience, but we suggest only reapplying once per year. We may also put up separate, team-specific job postings. In those cases, the teams will give preference to candidates who apply to the team-specific postings, so if you are interested in a specific team please make sure to check for team-specific job postings! You may be a good fit if you: - Have significant software engineering experience - 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 Strong candidates may also have experience with: - High performance, large-scale ML systems - GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals - Language modeling with transformers - Reinforcement learning - Large-scale ETL Representative projects: - Optimizing the throughput of a new attention mechanism - Comparing the compute efficiency of two Transformer variants - Making a Wikipedia dataset in a format models can easily consume - Scaling a distributed training job to thousands of GPUs - Writing a design doc for fault tolerance strategies - Creating an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language model The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $350,000—$500,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed pos

Responsibilities include working across code and infrastructure to improve reliability and efficiency of large-scale ML systems, running and designing scientific experiments, improving dev tooling, and contributing to scalable research workflows. Representative activities mentioned include optimizing throughput of attention mechanisms, evaluating transformer variants for compute efficiency, creating usable dataset formats for models, scaling distributed training to thousands of GPUs, drafting design docs for fault tolerance, and building interactive visualizations of model attention.