Anthropic Fellows Program — ML Systems & Performance

Anthropic
Berkeley, California, USA / London, UK / remote in the UK, US, or Canada2026-04-09

About the job

The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to foster AI research and engineering talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent - regardless of previous experience. Fellows will primarily use external infrastructure (e.g. open-source models, public APIs) to work on an empirical project aligned with our research priorities, with the goal of producing a public output (e.g. a paper submission).

Responsibilities

Building a CPU simulator for accelerator workloads; Adding backends for different accelerators on an open source project; Building on demand infrastructure for other infrastructure heavy fellows projects; Building complex synthetic data or environment pipelines

Qualifications

Minimum

Fluent in Python programming; Available to work full-time on the Fellows program

Preferred

Have strong software engineering skills with experience building complex ML systems; Can balance research exploration with engineering rigor and operational reliability; Enjoy collaborating across research and engineering disciplines; Are comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems and high-performance computing (e.g. in trading); Have experience with training, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models; Are adept at analyzing and debugging model training processes