Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $350K–$850K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 2 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 team
At Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves. Takeoff Intel is the team that measures this recursion from the inside. We're part of the Anthropic Institute. We design evaluations of AI R&D capabilities, build the…
About the role
As a Research Engineer on Takeoff Intel you'll build and run the evaluation and measurement instruments that make this research possible. This is a generalist role on a small team: you'll work across evals infrastructure, large-scale data processing, and…
Responsibilities
Design, build, and run capability evaluations and measurement instruments at scale Build the data and analysis pipelines that turn large volumes of model outputs and telemetry into reliable metrics Prototype new instruments fast, validate them, and decide…
You may be a good fit if you
Have shipped an evaluation, data product, or research library end to end Prototype fast and are comfortable throwing code away Handle messy, large-volume data without over-engineering Have run experiments on large language models, not just moved their outputs…
Strong candidates may also have
Built evaluation harnesses or benchmark infrastructure for LLMs Experience with large-scale ML or data infrastructure (self-driving, observability, or similar) alongside ML exposure Built tools or libraries that other researchers rely on A track record of…
Some examples of our work
Anthropic ECI: our adaptation of Epoch Capabilities Index published in all recent system cards to measure capability acceleration AI R&D capability assessments in the Claude system cards When AI Builds Itself: all data in the article comes from our team The…
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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