Research Engineer​/Research Scientist, Vision

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.

We’re looking for research engineers with a strong computer vision background who believe that visual and spatial reasoning are core to fully unlocking the capabilities of LLMs. In this role, you ll work on research, development, and evaluation for state-of-the-art Claude models, with a focus on visual and spatial capabilities. This role is highly collaborative and will touch many aspects of our broader research efforts, taking a full-stack approach across pretraining, RL, and runtime techniques like agentic harnesses.

Additionally, you’ll partner with the product org to ensure that the vision improvements you deliver impact Claude’s performance on real-world tasks.

• Run experiments to evaluate architectural variants, data strategies, and SL and RL techniques to improve Claude’s vision
• Develop and test tools, skills, and agentic infrastructure that enable Claude to reason over visual inputs
• Create evaluations and benchmarks that measure progress on multimodal capabilities across training and deployment
• Work with our product org to find solutions to our most vexing API customer challenges related to vision and spatial reasoning

• Have 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience through industry, academia, or other projects
• Are familiar with the architecture, training, and operation of large vision language models
• Have experience creating and evaluating large synthetic and real-world visual training datasets
• Have experience engaging in systematic prompting, fine tuning, or evaluation
• Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
• Enjoy pair programming and cross-team collaboration
• Care about the societal impacts of your work

• Large-scale pretraining, SL, and RL on language models
• Deep learning research on images, video, or other modalities
• Developing complex agentic systems using LLMs
• High-performance ML systems (GPUs, TPUs, JAX, PyTorch)
• Large-scale ETL and data pipeline development

• Running experiments to determine ideal training datamixes and parameters for a synthetically generated vision dataset
• Fine tuning Claude to maximize its performance using a particular set of agent tools/skills
• Building a pipeline to ingest and process a novel source of visual training data
• Designing and running experiments to evaluate the scalability of two architectural variants

Annual Salary
$350,000—$850,000 USD

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. If we extend an offer, we will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa with support from an immigration lawyer.

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We believe the highest-impact AI research is big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts and value impact—advancing steerable, trustworthy AI—over smaller, isolated puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science and value strong communication skills. Our recent directions include 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 collaborative office space.
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