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Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
Menlo Ventures PortfolioSan Francisco, CA · full time · Senior
$350,000 – $850,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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