Looking for research engineer jobs in San Francisco or New York with visa sponsorship? Anthropic is hiring a Research Engineer, Discovery to work on infrastructure for an AI scientist.
Research Engineer Jobs in San Francisco: Overview
| Job Title | Research Engineer, Discovery |
| Employer | Anthropic |
| Location | San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY |
| Salary | $350,000–$850,000 per year |
| Job Type | Full-time, hybrid |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Visa Sponsorship | Available, not guaranteed for every candidate |
| Closing Date | Not specified in the available job information |
About the Employer
Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems. The company is a public benefit corporation focused on AI safety and beneficial applications, with teams in research, engineering and policy.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale infrastructure systems to support AI scientist training, evaluation and deployment
- Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks impeding progress toward scientific capabilities
- Develop robust evaluation frameworks for measuring progress towards scientific AGI
- Build scalable VM, sandboxing and container architectures for long-horizon AI tasks
- Collaborate to translate experimental requirements into production-ready infrastructure
- Develop large-scale data pipelines and optimise training and inference for reinforcement learning
Requirements
- Essential: 6+ years of highly relevant experience in infrastructure engineering with large-scale distributed systems
- Essential: Deep knowledge of performance optimisation and system architectures for high-throughput ML workloads
- Essential: Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes at scale
- Essential: Proven track record of building large-scale data pipelines and distributed storage systems
- Desirable: Experience with language model training infrastructure, GPU architectures or cloud platforms at enterprise scale
- Not required: Formal AI safety background
Visa Sponsorship and International Applicants
Anthropic states it sponsors visas. However, it is not able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If an offer is made, the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and retains an immigration lawyer to help. Applicants should confirm eligibility during the process.
Salary and Benefits
- Competitive compensation with the stated annual range
- Equity available
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Office presence expected at least 25% of the time
- High compensation range
- Visa sponsorship stated
- Frontier AI work
- Sponsorship not guaranteed
- Hybrid office requirement
- High experience bar
How to Apply
Applications are submitted through Anthropic’s Greenhouse board. A CV and responses to application questions are required. No separate cover letter is specified.
Application Tips
- Highlight experience with distributed systems, containers and large-scale data pipelines
- Be prepared to discuss performance optimisation for ML workloads
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