Join Anthropic as a Research Engineer to enhance AI's ability to understand and operate software, contributing to impactful AI systems.
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Engineers work on advancing models' capabilities for computer use and safety.
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Research Engineer on the Computer Use team at Anthropic, the individual will focus on enhancing AI models' capabilities to interact with and understand software interfaces. Key skills include proficiency in Python, experience with machine learning model training, and a strong collaborative approach. This position is ideal for someone with a background in software engineering and a passion for both research and product development, particularly in the context of AI safety and societal impact.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Anthropic's career page.
- Anthropic has 415 other open roles including Engineering Manager, Data Architecture, Salesforce Developer, Partnerships, Business System Analyst Lead, Opportunity Acceleration.
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- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Research Engineer, Computer Use role remote?
- It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Anthropic lists $500,000–$850,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Machine Learning, reinforcement learning, Python.
- Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Anthropic targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Research Engineer, Computer Use role at Anthropic.
From the original posting
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
The Computer Use team focuses on teaching Claude to see, use, and understand computer interfaces. As a Research Engineer on the team, you'll work on advancing our models' ability to reliably and safely operate real software. We're looking for someone who's genuinely excited about both the research and the product sides of computer use.
Your work will translate directly into model improvements in our own and our customers' products. You can try Claude's computer use capabilities today through the Claude in Chrome extension and Claude Cowork.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and run experiments to improve Claude's perception and agentic capabilities
- Develop robust, reliable evaluation frameworks for measuring our models' ability to complete complex computer tasks
- Build and improve computer use and vision reinforcement learning training environments
- Create pipelines and tools to test and validate complex RL environments
- Collaborate with teams across the model training and infrastructure stack to improve our production training setup
- Partner with product teams to bring research advances into production
Minimum Qualifications:
- Software engineering experience and proficiency in Python
- Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style
- Care about the societal impacts and safety of your work
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience training models for computer use or other agentic capabilities
- Experience with reinforcement learning, particularly in long-horizon or sparse-reward settings
- Familiarity with multimodal model training
- Experience building evaluations or benchmarks for agentic systems
- Experience building reinforcement learning environments, simulation systems, or large-scale ML infrastructure
- Experience working closely with product teams to drive model improvements
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.