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Currently tracking 127 active AI roles, down 32% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $46k–$850k (avg $406k).
Anthropic currently has 151 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which constitute 32% of their openings. Engineering is the most frequent function, followed by Research. The majority of their hiring is concentrated in the United States. Frequent technical tags include evals, model_serving, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on the practical deployment and management of AI systems.
Anthropic currently has 149 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Regional Research Economist, Economic Research (2), Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) (2), Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training (2), Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering (2), Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Anthropic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (31%), serving infrastructure (15%), post-training (15%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Anthropic is hiring AI talent in: United States (130 roles), United Kingdom (18 roles), Canada (6 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at Anthropic most frequently mention: Machine Learning, AI Safety, Production ML Systems, System Design, Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the past 30 days, Anthropic has posted 32 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) Research Engineer focused on building and improving the RL training infrastructure and tooling at Anthropic. The role involves identifying and removing bottlenecks in the RL stack, partnering with researchers and other engineering teams, and owning the reliability and performance of research runs to enable faster iteration and shipping of better models at scale. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Pre-training Staff Infrastructure Engineer focused on the data processing infrastructure for large language model pre-training. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable systems for data quality, validation, and distributed computing at web-scale, collaborating closely with research teams. | Data |
| 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Research Tools Machine Learning Systems Engineer focused on developing and optimizing encodings and tokenization systems for Anthropic's Finetuning workflows. This role acts as a bridge between Pretraining and Finetuning teams, building infrastructure crucial for model learning and data interpretation, impacting research progress and efficiency. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Data Operations Manager - Computer Use & Tool Use This role focuses on building and scaling data operations for AI models, specifically for computer use capabilities and tool use safety. The manager will partner with research teams to design and execute data strategies, manage vendors, and own the data pipeline from requirements to production. The goal is to ensure AI models can use tools safely and operate computers autonomously, impacting agentic workflows. The role requires technical depth in ML workflows and RL environments, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, CLIO Machine Learning Systems Engineer to join the Encodings and Tokenization team, focusing on developing and optimizing tokenization systems for Pretraining and Finetuning workflows. This role builds infrastructure impacting model learning and data interpretation, bridging Pretraining and Finetuning teams. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Encodings and Tokenization Machine Learning Systems Engineer focused on developing and optimizing encodings and tokenization systems for Anthropic's Finetuning workflows. This role acts as a bridge between Pretraining and Finetuning teams, building infrastructure that impacts how models learn from data and improving training efficiency. Requires strong software engineering and ML expertise, with experience in ML systems, data pipelines, or ML infrastructure. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Data Operations Manager, Knowledge Lead human data collection initiatives to power advanced AI capabilities, focusing on AI safety and capability research. Design and build novel data collection systems and evaluation frameworks, translating research into scalable data systems. This is a 0-to-1 role requiring operational excellence at the intersection of AI research and execution. | DataEval Gate | 9 |
| Data Operations Manager, Horizons This role leads human data collection initiatives to power advanced AI research, focusing on agentic AI systems, coding, and computer use capabilities. It involves designing and building scalable data collection methodologies and systems from scratch, acting as a 'data as the product' owner for critical AI research. The role requires a strong software engineering background with entrepreneurial experience, technical depth in ML workflows, and project management skills. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer - Infrastructure & Runtime, Horizons Machine Learning Systems Engineer focused on building and maintaining foundational infrastructure for AI research, specifically for reinforcement learning, agentic AI, and model evaluation. The role involves designing data pipelines, creating secure execution environments, optimizing distributed computing infrastructure, and translating research requirements into scalable systems. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Encodings and Tokenization Machine Learning Systems Engineer focused on developing and optimizing encodings and tokenization systems for Anthropic's Finetuning workflows, acting as a bridge between Pretraining and Finetuning teams. This role is crucial for improving model training efficiency and performance, enabling researchers to experiment with new tokenization methods, and ensuring the reliability and interpretability of AI systems. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Software Engineer, RL Data Software Engineer on the RL Data team responsible for building systems that produce high-quality reinforcement learning data for Claude. This includes data collection pipelines, human feedback tooling, execution environments, and quality assurance. The role involves end-to-end ownership of stack components, iterating on prompts and evals, developing QA frameworks, hardening execution environments, and collaborating with domain experts and operations partners. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Full-Stack Software Engineer to build platforms, tools, and interfaces for environment creation, data collection, and training observability for RL. The role involves owning product surfaces end-to-end, iterating on data collection strategies, and partnering with researchers to ship reliable products. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Full-Stack Software Engineer to build platforms, tools, and interfaces for Reinforcement Learning environment creation, data collection, and training observability. This role supports researchers, vendors, and data labelers in generating high-quality training data for frontier models. Requires strong full-stack engineering skills and ability to build reliable products. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy at Anthropic. This role focuses on establishing and leading the privacy engineering function for AI systems, architecting privacy-preserving systems, implementing privacy-enhancing technologies, and providing technical leadership. It involves working at the intersection of privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems, with responsibilities including designing privacy-preserving architectures for training and inference, building privacy infrastructure, translating regulations into technical implementations, and leading privacy reviews. The role requires experience with privacy engineering principles, Python/Go, production systems at scale, data governance, and privacy regulations. | DataServe | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Research Data Platform Software Engineer to build and operate data pipelines and tooling for AI researchers managing data from training runs, exploring datasets, and analyzing experiments. Focus on data products supporting the research workflow. | Data | 7 |
| Data Engineer, Safeguards Data Engineer for the Safeguards team, responsible for building data pipelines, warehousing solutions, and analytical tooling to support AI safety and trust efforts. The role focuses on data infrastructure for monitoring models, preventing misuse, and ensuring user well-being. | Data | 7 |
| Data Operations Manager This role focuses on building and scaling data operations for AI research teams, managing the entire data pipeline from requirements to production. It involves partnering with researchers, managing vendors, and ensuring high-quality training data for frontier AI capabilities like RLHF, safety, tool use, and agentic workflows. The role requires operational excellence, technical depth in understanding training data, and strong project management skills. | DataPost-train | 7 |