Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training
Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
Zürich, CHPosted 8mo ago
About the role
Research Engineer focused on training base models through the full post-training stack to deliver production Claude models. Works at the intersection of research and production engineering to implement, scale, and improve post-training techniques (e.g., Constitutional AI, RLHF) for high-quality, safe production models.
Responsibilities
- Implement and optimize post-training techniques at scale on frontier models
- Conduct research to develop and optimize post-training recipes that directly improve production model quality
- Design, build, and run robust, efficient pipelines for model fine-tuning and evaluation
- Develop tools to measure and improve model performance across various dimensions
- Collaborate with research teams to translate emerging techniques into production-ready implementations
- Debug complex issues in training pipelines and model behavior
- Help establish best practices for reliable, reproducible model post-training
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering skills with experience building complex ML systems
- Experience with training, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models
- Comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems and high-performance computing
- Proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks, and distributed computing
- Ability to balance research exploration with engineering rigor and operational reliability
- A track record of analyzing and debugging model training processes
- Willingness to collaborate across research and engineering disciplines
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and make progress in fast-moving research environments
Skills
Required:PythonDeep learning frameworksDistributed computingModel fine-tuning and evaluation
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Anthropic
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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