Research Engineer, RL Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
You want to build the cutting-edge systems that train AI models like Claude. Youre excited to work at the frontier of machine learning implementing and improving advanced techniques to create ever more capable reliable and steerable AI. As an ML Systems Engineer on our Reinforcement Learning Engineering team youll be responsible for the critical algorithms and infrastructure that our researchers depend on to train models. Your work will directly enable breakthroughs in AI capabilities and safety. Youll focus obsessively on improving the performance robustness and usability of these systems so our research can progress as quickly as possible. Youre energized by the challenge of supporting and empowering our research team in the mission to build beneficial AI systems.
Our finetuning researchers train our production Claude models and internal research models using RLHF and other related methods. Your job will be to build maintain and improve the algorithms and systems that these researchers use to train models. Youll be responsible for improving the speed reliability and ease-of-use of these systems.
- Have 4 years of software engineering experience
- Like working on systems and tools that make other people more productive
- 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 learn more about machine learning research
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
- High performance large scale distributed systems
- Large scale LLM training
- Python
- Implementing LLM finetuning algorithms such as RLHF
- Profiling our reinforcement learning pipeline to find opportunities for improvement
- Building a system that regularly launches training jobs in a test environment so that we can quickly detect problems in the training pipeline
- Making changes to our finetuning systems so they work on new model architectures
- Building instrumentation to detect and eliminate Python GIL contention in our training code
- Diagnosing why training runs have started slowing down after some number of steps and fixing it
- Implementing a stable fast version of a new training algorithm proposed by a researcher
Deadline to apply:None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles the range provided is the roles 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:
$500000 - $850000 USD
Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.
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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
