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 ML Performance and Scaling team trains our production pretrained models, work that directly shapes the company's future and our mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems. As a Research Engineer on this team, you'll ensure our frontier models train reliably, efficiently, and at scale. This is demanding, high-impact work that requires both deep technical expertise and a genuine passion for the craft of large-scale ML systems. This role lives at the boundary between research and engineering. You'll work across our entire production training stack: performance optimization, hardware debugging, experimental design, and launch coordination. During launches, the team works in tight lockstep, responding to production issues that can't wait for tomorrow. Responsibilities: - Own critical aspects of our production pretraining pipeline, including model operations, performance optimization, observability, and reliability - Debug and resolve complex issues across the full stack—from hardware errors and networking to training dynamics and evaluation infrastructure - Design and run experiments to improve training efficiency, reduce step time, increase uptime, and enhance model performance - Respond to on-call incidents during model launches, diagnosing problems quickly and coordinating solutions across teams - Build and maintain production logging, monitoring dashboards, and evaluation infrastructure - Add new capabilities to the training codebase, such as long context support or novel architectures - Collaborate closely with teammates across SF and London, as well as with Tokens, Architectures, and Systems teams - Contribute to the team's institutional knowledge by documenting systems, debugging approaches, and lessons learned You May Be a Good Fit If You: - Have hands-on experience training large language models, or deep expertise with JAX, TPU, PyTorch, or large-scale distributed systems - Genuinely enjoy both research and engineering work—you'd describe your ideal split as roughly 50/50 rather than heavily weighted toward one or the other - Are excited about being on-call for production systems, working long days during launches, and solving hard problems under pressure - Thrive when working on whatever is most impactful, even if that changes day-to-day based on what the production model needs - Excel at debugging complex, ambiguous problems across multiple layers of the stack - Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively, especially when coordinating across time zones or during high-stress incidents - Are passionate about the work itself and want to refine your craft as a research engineer - Care about the societal impacts of AI and responsible scaling Strong Candidates May Also Have: - Previous experience training LLM’s or working extensively with JAX/TPU, PyTorch, or other ML frameworks at scale - Contributed to open-source LLM frame