Research Engineer

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.

You want to build and run elegant and thorough machine learning experiments to help us understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. You care about making AI helpful, honest, and harmless, and are interested in the ways that this could be challenging in the context of human-level capabilities. You could describe yourself as both a scientist and an engineer. As a Research Engineer on Alignment Science, you'll contribute to exploratory experimental research on AI safety, with a focus on risks from powerful future systems (like those we would designate as ASL-3 or ASL-4 under our Responsible Scaling Policy), often in collaboration with other teams including Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and the Frontier Red Team.

• Testing the robustness of our safety techniques by training language models to subvert our safety techniques, and seeing how effective they are at subverting our interventions
• Run multi-agent reinforcement learning experiments to test out techniques like AI Debate
• Build tooling to efficiently evaluate the effectiveness of novel LLM-generated jailbreaks
• Write scripts and prompts to efficiently produce evaluation questions to test models' reasoning abilities in safety-relevant contexts
• Contribute ideas, figures, and writing to research papers, blog posts, and talks
• Run experiments that feed into key AI safety efforts at Anthropic, like the design and implementation of our Responsible Scaling Policy

• Significant software, ML, or research engineering experience
• Some experience contributing to empirical AI research projects
• Some familiarity with technical AI safety research
• Prefer fast-moving collaborative projects to extensive solo efforts
• Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
• Care about the impacts of AI

• Annual salary: £260,000 - £370,000 GBP
• Hybrid policy: at least 25% in office, occasional travel to San Francisco
• Visa sponsorship available