Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Vision

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA, USA2026-01-16

About the job

We’re looking for research engineers with a strong computer vision background who believe that visual and spatial reasoning are core to fully unlocking the capabilities of LLMs. In this role, you'll work on research, development, and evaluation for state-of-the-art Claude models, with a focus on visual and spatial capabilities.

Responsibilities

Run experiments to evaluate architectural variants, data strategies, and SL and RL techniques to improve Claude’s vision

Develop and test tools, skills, and agentic infrastructure that enable Claude to reason over visual inputs

Create evaluations and benchmarks that measure progress on multimodal capabilities across training and deployment

Work with our product org to find solutions to our most vexing API customer challenges related to vision and spatial reasoning

Qualifications

Minimum

Have 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience through industry, academia, or other projects

Are familiar with the architecture, training, and operation of large vision language models

Have experience creating and evaluating large synthetic and real-world visual training datasets

Have experience engaging in systematic prompting, finetuning, or evaluation

Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact

Enjoy pair programming and cross-team collaboration

Care about the societal impacts of your work

Preferred

Large-scale pretraining, SL, and RL on language models

Deep learning research on images, video, or other modalities

Developing complex agentic systems using LLMs

High-performance ML systems (GPUs, TPUs, JAX, PyTorch)

Large-scale ETL and data pipeline development