Join Anthropic as a Research Engineer to enhance AI capabilities in finance, healthcare, and legal domains through applied research and data sourcing.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Research Engineer on the Domain Scaling team at Anthropic focuses on enhancing AI models for real-world applications in sectors like finance and healthcare through applied research and data sourcing. Key skills include experience with reinforcement learning, data curation, and managing vendor relationships, particularly in fine-tuning large language models. This position is ideal for candidates with a strong background in machine learning and a collaborative mindset, as they will work closely with domain experts and other research teams. Anthropic emphasizes a cohesive team approach to tackle significant AI challenges, fostering an environment of open communication and shar
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- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Research Engineer, Domain Scaling role remote?
- It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Anthropic lists $350,000–$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: Large Language Models, AI/ML, reinforcement learning.
- 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, Domain Scaling 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 Domain Scaling team has the goal to make Claude world-class at real-world knowledge work in domains like finance, healthcare, and legal. This is a unique role that combines executing directly on applied research and data sourcing (real-world and synthetic) to improve our models. You'll own the end-to-end process of creating RL environments for new capabilities: identifying high-value tasks, designing reward signals, managing vendor relationships, and measuring impact on model performance.
Responsibilities
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Own the data strategy for knowledge work verticals end-to-end, from task sourcing through RL training
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Manage technical relationships with external data vendors, including evaluation of data quality and reward design
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Collaborate with domain experts to design data pipelines and evaluations
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Explore novel ways of creating RL envs for high value tasks
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Develop and improve QA frameworks to catch reward hacking and ensure env quality
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Run generalization experiments to measure how data strategy changes improve model capabilities
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Partner with other RL research teams and product teams to translate capability goals into training envs and evals
You may be a good fit if you
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Have experience with fine-tuning large language models for specific domains or real-world use cases
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Have experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or training data curation for LLMs
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Are comfortable managing technical vendor relationships and iterating quickly on feedback
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Find value in reading through datasets to understand them and spot issues
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Have strong cross-functional collaboration skills
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Are passionate about making AI more useful and accessible across different industries
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Are excited about a role that includes a combination of applied research and hands-on data work
Strong candidates may also
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Have experience training production ML systems
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Have experience designing evals or benchmarks for LLMs
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Have domain expertise in a vertical where we would like to make our models more useful
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Have experience working with external vendors or technical partners
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.