Research Engineer, AI Observability · Anthropic

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:49:26 GMT
Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320,000 - $405,000 USD · hybrid

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 Team

As AI training and deployments scale, the volume of data we need to monitor and understand is exploding. Our team uses Claude itself to make sense of this data. We own an integrated set of tools enabling Anthropic to ask open-ended questions, surface unexpected patterns, and maintain meaningful human oversight over massive datasets.

Our tools are widely adopted internally — powering ongoing enforcement, threat intelligence investigations, model audits, and more — and we’re looking for experienced engineers and researchers to both scale up existing applications and go zero-to-one on new ones.

About the Role

As a Research Engineer on our team, you'll design and build systems that let AI analyse large, unstructured datasets — think tens or hundreds of thousands of conversations or documents — and produce structured, trustworthy insights. You'll work across the full stack, from core analysis frameworks through user-facing apps and interfaces.

This is a high-leverage role. The tools you build will be used by dozens of researchers and investigators, and directly shape our ability to measure and mitigate both misuse and misalignment.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement AI-based monitoring systems for AI training and deployment

Extend and improve core frameworks for processing large volumes of unstructured text

Partner with researchers and safety teams across Anthropic to understand their analytical needs and build solutions

Develop agentic integrations that allow AI systems to autonomously investigate and act on analytical findings

Contribute to the strategic direction of the team, including decisions about what to build, what to partner on, and where to invest

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to ML systems

Are excited about the problem of scaling human oversight of AI systems

Are familiar with LLM application development (context engineering, evaluation, orchestration)

Enjoy building tools that other people use — you care about UX, reliability, and documentation

Can context-switch between deep infrastructure work and user-facing product thinking

Thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

Research experience in AI safety, alignment, or responsible deployment

Practical experience with both data science and engineering, including developing and using large-scale data processing frameworks

Experience with productionizing internal tools or building developer-facing platforms

Background in building monitoring or observability systems

Comfort with ambiguity — our team is small and growing, and you'll help define what we become

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. 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.

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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.