Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure
Anthropic · AI Research & Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $405K–$605K/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
Anthropic's Environments organization builds and maintains the infrastructure that improves Claude’s capabilities through reinforcement learning. That includes the frameworks researchers use to build environments and the infrastructure responsible for running…
Key responsibilities
Design widely used APIs, frameworks, and abstractions that other engineers and researchers build on, making correct usage the default and ruling out entire classes of errors structurally Own the platform layers that sit beneath every environment, including…
Minimum qualifications
Deep expertise in Python, including static typing, safe async and concurrency patterns, and writing performant code Strong taste in API and framework design, the ability to explain why an interface is right or wrong rather than just recognizing it, and a…
Preferred qualifications
Experience building infrastructure, tooling, or frameworks for machine learning research or RL workflows, and familiarity with agentic systems or LLM training pipelines Experience building agent frameworks, orchestration engines, or multi-agent systems,…
Representative projects
These are examples of the challenges the team tackles: Design a base RL environment abstraction that can be subclassed to support the large majority of environments built across RL Redesign the model-tool interface for sandboxed agentic environments so that…
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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