Research Engineer Performance Engineer RL Distributed Systems
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Anthropic
Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate systems for reinforcement-learning training, sampling, and environment execution. You will improve scheduling, data movement, storage, networking, fault tolerance, autoscaling, observability, and automation while preserving training correctness.
Requirements
- Python
- Rust, C++, or Go
- Distributed systems
- Production systems
- Consistency
- Coordination
- Consensus
- Failure recovery
- Throughput analysis
- Latency analysis
- Resource cost analysis
- Compute
- Memory
- Storage
- Networking
- Debugging
- Design documentation
- Incident documentation
- Machine learning infrastructure
- Container orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Virtualization
- High-performance networking
- RDMA
- Collective communication
- Observability
- Automated remediation
- Trio
- asyncio
- Reinforcement learning
- Large language model training
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems for reinforcement learning at scale
- Remove bottlenecks in scheduling, data movement, storage, networking, and coordination
- Build failure detection, isolation, and recovery systems
- Design resource management and autoscaling systems
- Build observability for run performance and unexpected results
- Build automation and safe operational interfaces
- Partner with researchers and performance engineers to preserve training correctness
- Eliminate failure classes through incident review, testing, and redesign
- Write design documents
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours