Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA, USA2025-04-22

About the job

As a Research Engineer on our team you will work end to end, identifying and addressing key blockers on the path to scientific AGI. Strong candidates should have familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference, be comfortable triaging research ideas and diagnosing problems and enjoy working collaboratively. Familiarity with performance optimization, distributed systems, vm/sandboxing/container deployment, and large scale data pipelines is highly encouraged.

Responsibilities

Working across the full stack to identify and remove bottlenecks preventing progress toward scientific AGI

Develop approaches to address long-horizon task completion and complex reasoning challenges essential for scientific discovery

Scaling research ideas from prototype to production

Create benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure model capabilities in scientific workflows and computer use

Implement distributed training systems and performance optimizations to support large-scale model development

Qualifications

Minimum

Have 8+ years of ML research experience

Are familiar with large scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines

Enjoy obsessively iterating on immediate blockers towards longterm goals

Thrive working collaboratively to solve problems

Have expertise in performance optimization and distributed computing systems

Show strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks in complex systems

Can translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions

Have a track record of shipping ML systems that tackle challenging multi-step reasoning problems

Preferred

Expertise with performance optimization for language model inference and training

Experience with computer use automation and agentic AI systems

A history working on reinforcement learning approaches for complex task completion

Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment at scale

Demonstrated ability to work across multiple domains (language modeling, systems engineering, scientific computing)

Have experience with VM/sandboxing/container deployment and large-scale data processing

Experience working with large scale data problem solving and infrastructure

Published research or practical experience in scientific AI applications or long-horizon reasoning