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Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA)$350k - $850kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Research engineer role focusing on visual and spatial reasoning to unlock multimodal capabilities of large language models. End-to-end data strategy, RL environments, vendor collaboration, and measurement of generalization in vision-language tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Own the data strategy for vision capabilities end-to-end, from building evals and scaling RL environments
  • Manage technical relationships with external data vendors, including writing task specifications, evaluating visual data and annotation quality, and iterating on reward design
  • Develop and improve QA frameworks that catch reward hacking and ensure environment quality at scale
  • Run generalization experiments to measure how data strategy changes improve multimodal capabilities on held-out evaluations
  • Partner with pretraining, RL, and product teams, and do the science that shows we’re all rowing in the same direction

Qualifications

  • Have 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience through industry, academia, or other projects
  • Have experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or training data curation for large language or vision-language models
  • Are familiar with the architecture, training, and operation of large vision language models
  • Are comfortable managing technical vendor relationships and iterating quickly on feedback
  • Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work

Skills

Required:Data strategy and task planning for vision capabilitiesExternal vendor managementReinforcement learning and reward designVision-language model architecture and trainingQuality assurance for RL environmentsGeneralization experimentation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
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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