Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training

Description

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 role Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models. Note: For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. This role may require responding to incidents on short-notice, including on weekends. Responsibilities: - Implement and optimize post-training techniques at scale on frontier models - Conduct research to develop and optimize post-training recipes that directly improve production model quality - Design, build, and run robust, efficient pipelines for model fine-tuning and evaluation - Develop tools to measure and improve model performance across various dimensions - Collaborate with research teams to translate emerging techniques into production-ready implementations - Debug complex issues in training pipelines and model behavior - Help establish best practices for reliable, reproducible model post-training You may be a good fit if you: - Thrive in controlled chaos and are energised, rather than overwhelmed, when juggling multiple urgent priorities - Adapt quickly to changing priorities - Maintain clarity when debugging complex, time-sensitive issues - Have strong software engineering skills with experience building complex ML systems - Are comfortable working with large-scale distributed systems and high-performance computing - Have experience with training, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models - Can balance research exploration with engineering rigor and operational reliability - Are adept at analyzing and debugging model training processes - Enjoy collaborating across research and engineering disciplines - Can navigate ambiguity and make progress in fast-moving research environments Strong candidates may also: - Have experience with LLMs - Have a keen interest in AI safety and responsible deployment We welcome candidates at various