Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)

About Anthropic Anthropic’s 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. About the RL Teams Our Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to all Claude models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. Our work spans several key areas: Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectively Advancing code generation through reinforcement learning Pioneering fundamental RL research for large language models Building scalable RL infrastructure and training methodologies Enhancing model reasoning capabilities We collaborate closely with Anthropic's alignment and frontier red teams to ensure our systems are both capable and safe. We partner with the applied production training team to bring research innovations into deployed models, and are dedicated to implement our research at scale. Our Reinforcement Learning teams sit at the intersection of cutting-edge research and engineering excellence, with a deep commitment to building high-quality, scalable systems that push the boundaries of what AI can accomplish. About the Role We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to safely write correct, fast code for accelerators. You'll need to know accelerator performance well to turn it into tasks and signals models can learn from. Specifically, you will: Invent, design and implement RL environments and evaluations. Conduct experiments and shape our research roadmap. Deliver your work into training runs. Collaborate with other researchers, engineers, and performance engineering specialists across and outside Anthropic. You may be a good fit if you: Have expertise with accelerators (CUDA, ROCm, Triton, Pallas), ML framework programming (JAX or PyTorch). Have worked across the stack – kernels, model code, distributed systems. Know how to balance research exploration with engineering implementation. Are passionate about AI's potential and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems. Strong candidates may also have: Experience with reinforcement learning. Experience porting ML workloads between different types of accelerators. Familiarity with LLM training methodologies. 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 m