Staff Software Engineer, Code RL
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Seattle
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $405K–$625K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 3 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 role
Code RL at Anthropic drives reinforcement learning efforts behind Claude's coding capabilities, creating and scaling agentic coding environments. This is an engineering role with unusual latitude to set technical direction and standards. You'll be part of a…
Key responsibilities
Design widely-used APIs, frameworks, and abstractions that other engineers and researchers build on, with careful attention to interface legibility and principled defaults Embed with research teams on a rotational basis: understand their engineering needs,…
Minimum qualifications
Deep expertise in Python, including static typing, safe async and concurrency patterns, and writing performant Python code A track record of designing intuitive, safe APIs or frameworks that other engineers or teams adopted and built on Experience working…
Preferred qualifications
Experience building infrastructure, tooling, or frameworks for machine learning research or RL workflows Familiarity with reinforcement learning concepts, agentic systems, or LLM training pipelines Experience building or operating large-scale distributed…
Representative projects
These are examples of the challenges the team tackles; no one person will work on all of them: Design a base RL environment abstraction general enough to be subclassed across a wide range of environments Design a model-tool interface for sandboxed agentic…
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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