# Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b8c2a4e1-421b-4856-807e-6552be951f8e

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 350000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

Anthropic seeks a Research Engineer to work across their full ML stack, tackling foundational challenges in building AI systems capable of scientific reasoning and complex problem-solving. This role bridges research and engineering, requiring deep expertise in language models, distributed systems, and performance optimization to scale prototypes into production systems.

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

## Skills named

Data Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- 8+ years of ML research experience
- Familiarity with large-scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
- Ability to identify and diagnose technical bottlenecks in complex systems
- Experience translating research concepts into scalable engineering solutions
- Track record of shipping ML systems for multi-step reasoning problems
- Strong collaborative problem-solving skills

## Nice to have

- Performance optimization expertise for language model inference and training
- Experience with computer use automation and agentic AI systems
- Reinforcement learning background for complex task completion
- Containerization technologies knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment at scale
- Work across multiple domains (language modeling, systems engineering, scientific computing)
- Experience with large-scale data problem solving and infrastructure
- Published research or practical experience in scientific AI or long-horizon reasoning

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4593216008