Research Engineer, Search

USD 315,000-425,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Python @ 3 Machine Learning @ 3 Communication @ 3 Search Engines @ 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.

Requirements

  • Very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code
  • Good machine learning research experience
  • Experience developing software that utilizes Large Language Models such as Claude
  • Results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Enjoy pair programming
  • Ability to partner with world-class ML researchers
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Care about societal impacts

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, distributed data processing

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office spaces

Logistics

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Location-based hybrid policy with 25% in-office expectation
  • Visa sponsorship available but case-dependent
  • Encouragement to apply even if not meeting every qualification
  • Collaborative research environment with high-impact AI goals
  • Headquarters in San Francisco
  • Guidance on AI usage in application process