Hybrid Research Engineer, Agents

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About the role

  • Research Engineer developing agentic systems at Anthropic focused on LLMs and AI applications. Collaborating with researchers to enhance agent performance and tackle complex tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Ideate, develop, and compare the performance of different agent harnesses (eg memory, context compression, communication architectures for agents)
  • Design and implement rigorous quantitative benchmarks for large scale agentic tasks
  • Assist with automated evaluation of Claude models and prompts across the training and product lifecycle
  • Work with our product org to find solutions to our most vexing challenges applying agents to our products
  • Help create and optimize data mixes for model training that maximize Claude’s performance or ease of use on agentic tasks

Requirements

  • Have experience developing complex agentic systems using LLMs
  • Have significant software engineering and ML experience
  • Have spent time prompting and/or building products with language models
  • Have good communication skills and an interest in working with other researchers on difficult tasks
  • Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
  • Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends.
  • Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
  • Strong candidates may also have experience with large-scale RL on language models and multi-agent systems

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Health insurance

Job title

Research Engineer, Agents

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$500,000 - $850,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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