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Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$500k - $850kPosted 2w ago

About the role

Role at the intersection of research and engineering focused on scaling multi-agent systems. Design and run large experiments, build scalable systems for very large agent teams, and interpret results. Collaborates with research teams to enable platform use and measurement of agent-scale performance.

Responsibilities

  • Design, run and interpret large-scale experiments on agent teams, reasoning rigorously about what the data does and doesn't show
  • Investigate how performance and efficiency change as team size, compute and task horizon grow, and find the bottlenecks that limit them
  • Build and scale the systems that run very large agent teams reliably, and debug the failures that only appear at scale
  • Design evaluations for long-horizon problems, and keep their results trustworthy
  • Build the tooling and metrics that let researchers see what a large agent team is doing and why
  • Partner with research teams across Anthropic so they can run their own experiments on the platform, and communicate findings clearly

Qualifications

  • Have significant software engineering, ML or research engineering experience
  • Have owned something substantial end to end, such as a large system, an evaluation or benchmark, an agent product, or a research project
  • Genuinely enjoy both research and engineering work
  • Think quantitatively about complex systems, and think twice before trusting a number
  • Can work from a vague question rather than a spec
  • Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Have clear written and verbal communication
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work

Skills

Required:Software engineering experience or ML/research engineeringExperience owning end-to-end systems/evaluations/benchmarksAbility to work with vague questions and design experimentsCommunication skillsSocietal impact awareness
Last updated Oct 7, 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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