Research Engineer, Computer Use
About the role
The Computer Use team focuses on teaching Claude to see, use, and understand computer interfaces. As a Research Engineer on the team, you'll work on advancing our models' ability to reliably and safely operate real software. We're looking for someone who's genuinely excited about both the research and the product sides of computer use.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and run experiments to improve Claude's perception and agentic capabilities
- Develop robust, reliable evaluation frameworks for measuring our models' ability to complete complex computer tasks
- Build and improve computer use and vision reinforcement learning training environments
- Create pipelines and tools to test and validate complex RL environments
- Collaborate with teams across the model training and infrastructure stack to improve our production training setup
- Partner with product teams to bring research advances into production
Minimum Qualifications
- Software engineering experience and proficiency in Python
- Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style
- Care about the societal impacts and safety of your work
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience training models for computer use or other agentic capabilities
- Experience with reinforcement learning, particularly in long-horizon or sparse-reward settings
- Familiarity with multimodal model training
- Experience building evaluations or benchmarks for agentic systems
- Experience building reinforcement learning environments, simulation systems, or large-scale ML infrastructure
- Experience working closely with product teams to drive model improvements
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary:
- $500,000 - $850,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy:
We currently expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:
We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.