Research Engineer, Production Model Post Training

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

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.

About the role

Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models. Note: For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. This role may require responding to incidents on short-notice, including on weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and optimize post-training techniques at scale on frontier models
• Conduct research to develop and optimize post-training recipes that directly improve production model quality
• Design, build, and run robust, efficient pipelines for model fine-tuning and evaluation
• Develop tools to measure and improve model performance across various dimensions
• Collaborate with research teams to translate emerging techniques into production-ready implementations
• Debug complex issues in training pipelines and model behavior
• Help establish best practices for reliable, reproducible model post-training

You may be a good fit if you:

• Thrive in controlled chaos andare energised, rather than overwhelmed, when juggling multiple urgent priorities
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Maintain clarity when debugging complex, time-sensitive issues
• Have strong software engineering skills with experience building complex ML systems
• Are comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems and high-performance computing
• Have experience with training, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models
• Can balance research exploration with engineering rigor and operational reliability
• Are adept at analyzing and debugging model training processes
• Enjoy collaborating across research and engineering disciplines
• Can navigate ambiguity and make progress in fast-moving research environments

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience with LLMs
• Have a keen interest in AI safety and responsible deployment

We welcome candidates at various experience levels, with a preference for senior engineers who have hands-on experience with frontier AI systems. However, proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks, and distributed computing is required for this role. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the roles On Target Earnings ("OTE") range... Annual Salary: $350000 - $500000USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Location-based hybrid policy: Currently,... Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However,... We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification... Your safety matters to us...

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Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation & benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation & parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process