Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $500K–$850K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 4 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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…
About the RL Teams
Our Reinforcement Learning teams play a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to all Claude models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of our latest Claude models. Our work spans several key areas:…
About the Role
We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to write, edit, test, debug, and ship real software — end to end, on real codebases, with real tools — and to do it correctly, fast, and…
You may be a good fit if you
Have strong software-engineering skills and deep Python expertise, including async/concurrent programming Are comfortable owning systems end to end and debugging across the stack Can balance research exploration with engineering implementation, and engage…
Strong candidates may also have
Experience with reinforcement learning, RLHF, post-training, or LLM finetuning Built coding agents, code-execution sandboxes, eval harnesses, verifiers, or developer tooling Background in program analysis, testing, verification, compilers, or formal methods…
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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…
Logistics
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How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work…
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to…
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