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Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$350k - $850kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Research Engineer role at Anthropic in San Francisco, CA, focused on identifying and addressing blockers on the path to scientific AGI, with emphasis on language model training, evaluation, inference, performance optimization, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines.

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

  • 8+ years of ML research experience
  • Familiarity with large scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
  • Experience translating research concepts into scalable engineering solutions
  • Track record of shipping ML systems that tackle challenging multi-step reasoning problems
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks in complex systems

Skills

Required:ML researchLarge-scale language model training, evaluation, and inferencePerformance optimizationDistributed computing systems
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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