Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
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