Research Engineer, Universes

Anthropic
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY / Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required)2026-01-09

About the job

We're looking for Research Engineers to help us build the next generation of training environments for capable and safe agentic AI. This role blends research and engineering responsibilities, requiring you to both implement novel approaches and contribute to research direction.

Responsibilities

Build the next generation of agentic environments

Build rigorous evaluations that measure real capability

Collaborate across research and infrastructure teams to ship environments into production training

Debug and iterate rapidly across research and production ML stacks

Contribute to research culture through technical discussions and collaborative problem-solving

Qualifications

Minimum

Are highly impact-driven — you care about outcomes, not activity

Operate with high agency

Have good research taste or senior technical experience, demonstrating good judgment in identifying what actually matters in complex problem spaces

Can balance research exploration with engineering implementation

Are passionate about the potential impact of AI and are committed to developing safe and beneficial systems

Are comfortable with uncertainty and adapt quickly as the landscape shifts

Have strong software engineering skills and can build robust infrastructure

Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)

Preferred

Have industry experience with large language model training, fine-tuning or evaluation

Have industry experience building RL environments, simulation systems, or large-scale ML infrastructure

Senior experience in a relevant technical field even if transitioning domains

Deep expertise in sandboxing, containerization, VM infrastructure, or distributed systems

Published influential work in relevant ML areas