Software Engineer, Research Data Platform
Anthropic
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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
The Research Data Platform team builds the tools that Anthropic's researchers use every day to manage, query, and analyze the data that goes into training and evaluating frontier models. We power the internal applications researchers rely on to monitor RL runs, explore finetuning datasets, and understand what's happening inside their experiments.
We're looking for engineers who love working directly with users and who excel at building data products — the pipelines that move data out of training runs into queryable storage, and the APIs, libraries, and services researchers use to manage and explore it. This role sits closer to the research workflow than a typical data infrastructure position: you'll often embed with research teams, build ML-specific tooling alongside them, and leverage what our Data Infrastructure team has already built rather than reinventing it.
We do not require prior ML or AI training experience. If you enjoy working closely with technical users, learning new domains quickly, and building tools people actually want to use, you'll pick up the research context fast.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate data pipelines that extract data from research training runs and land it in storage systems that are easy and fast to query
- Work closely with researchers to design and build APIs, libraries, and web interfaces that support data management, exploration, and analysis
- Develop dataset management, data cataloging, and provenance tooling that researchers use in their day-to-day work
- Embed with research teams to understand their workflows, identify high-leverage tooling opportunities, and ship solutions quickly
- Collaborate with adjacent teams to build on existing systems rather than reinventing them
You may be a good fit if you
- Have significant software engineering experience, particularly building data-intensive applications or internal tooling
- Enjoy working directly with users, gathering requirements iteratively, and shipping things that get adopted
- Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Want to learn more about machine learning research
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
Strong candidates may also have experience with
- Large-scale ETL, columnar storage formats, and query engines (e.g., Spark, BigQuery, DuckDB, Parquet)
- High-volume time series data — ingestion, storage, and efficient querying
- Data cataloging, lineage, or metadata management systems
- ML experiment tracking or metrics platforms
- Working in environments where engineers partner closely with quantitative users — research labs, trading firms, observability or analytics startups
- Complex data visualization and full-stack web application development
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
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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: Currently, we 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.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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