Anthropic · 7 hours ago
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$350K/yr - $500K/yrAnthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. They are seeking a Research Engineer / Research Scientist to build large scale machine learning systems, improve code and infrastructure, and run scientific experiments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Have significant software engineering experience
Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
Want to learn more about machine learning research
Care about the societal impacts of your work
Optimizing the throughput of a new attention mechanism
Comparing the compute efficiency of two Transformer variants
Making a Wikipedia dataset in a format models can easily consume
Scaling a distributed training job to thousands of GPUs
Writing a design doc for fault tolerance strategies
Creating an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language model
Qualification
Required
Have significant software engineering experience
Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
Want to learn more about machine learning research
Care about the societal impacts of your work
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred
High performance, large-scale ML systems
GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals
Language modeling with transformers
Reinforcement learning
Large-scale ETL
Benefits
Equity and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
Founded in 2021
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.74BKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoogleAmazon
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
2025-03-03Series E· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
Recent News
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