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Research Engineer, RL Engineering

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · full time

$500,000 – $850,000

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What this role is

Join Anthropic's RL Engineering team to build and improve the reinforcement learning training system that powers Claude's capabilities. This role offers the chance to work across the full ML stack on production-scale systems while collaborating with research teams across the company.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience with large-scale ML training systems or reinforcement learning
  • Experience with at least one modern ML framework (JAX, PyTorch, or similar)
  • Ability to design and validate controlled experiments
  • Balance research exploration with engineering implementation
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to have

  • Experience with RL for large language models
  • Experience studying training dynamics at scale
  • Experience with distributed training systems
  • Knowledge of LLM architectures and training methodologies
  • Experience working on frontier training runs
  • Experience profiling and optimizing ML workloads
  • Experience with RL environments and evaluations
  • Experience with Rust or C++

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