Research Engineer, Knowledge Team

Anthropic PBC

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$350,000–$850,000 Per Year
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Data Processing, Distributed Computing, Information Architecture, Information Retrieval, Information Technology & Information Systems, Knowledge Base, Language Teaching, Modeling Languages, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Prototyping, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Reinforcement Learning, Scalable System Development, Search Agent, Search Engines, Search Ranking, Software Development, Software Engineering
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
3 days ago

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.

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Are a very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code that your teammates love using
  • Have good machine learning research experience 
  • Have experience developing software that utilizes Large Language Models such as Claude
  • Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
  • Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
  • Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
  • Want to partner with world-class ML researchers to develop new LLM capabilities
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work
  • Have clear written and verbal communication

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, and distributed data processing

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$350,000 - $850,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About the Company

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Anthropic PBC