Research Engineer, Search

GBP 250,000-270,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Python @ 3 Machine Learning @ 3 Communication @ 3 Search Engines @ 3 Slack @ 3 LLM @ 3

Details

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.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing from scratch new information architecture strategies
  • Performing finetuning and reinforcement learning to teach language models how to interact with new information architectures
  • Building “hard” knowledge base eval sets to help identify failure modes of how language models work with external data
  • Designing and evaluating advanced agentic search capabilities

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Are a very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code that your teammates love using
  • Have good machine learning research experience
  • Have experience developing software that utilizes Large Language Models such as Claude
  • 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 partner with world-class ML researchers to develop new LLM capabilities
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work
  • Have clear written and verbal communication

Strong candidates will also have experience with:

  • Collaborating with product teams to quickly prototype and deliver innovative solutions
  • Building complex agentic systems that utilize LLMs
  • Developing scalable distributed information retrieval systems, such as search engines, knowledge graphs, RAG, indexing, ranking, query understanding, and distributed data processing

Benefits and Logistics

  • Competitive annual salary range between £250,000 - £270,000 GBP
  • Education requirement: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Location-based hybrid policy: at least 25% office presence expected
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Inclusive culture encouraging applications from diverse and underrepresented groups
  • Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, equity donation matching, and collaborative office space
  • Strong emphasis on communication, collaboration, and impactful large-scale AI research