# Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b78d2a27-9c41-4be4-ab32-2aee8d288e1c

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Location: New York, NY
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 500000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

Build and optimize the infrastructure and tooling that powers Anthropic's reinforcement learning research, working across the full stack to eliminate bottlenecks and enable researchers to iterate faster. This role suits engineers who excel at systems work, distributed computing, and enabling others' productivity through thoughtfully designed platforms rather than individual experiments.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

JAX, PyTorch

## Required

- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Track record building performant, reliable systems
- Experience with ML infrastructure, distributed systems, or research tooling
- Comfort operating across the full stack from low-level performance to RL algorithms
- Bias toward shipping and iterating quickly

## Nice to have

- Experience with large-scale distributed training in RL, pre-training, or post-training
- Familiarity with JAX, PyTorch, or similar ML frameworks
- Track record working at the intersection of research and infrastructure in fast-moving environments

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5198108008