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Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems at a…

Company: anthropic

Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

Workplace: On-site

Seniority: Mid-level

Category: Engineering

Compensation: ~£395k–£672k

Posted: 2026-09-29

Stack: python, rust, go, kubernetes, aws

Role overview

Reinforcement learning is how Claude learns to reason, write code, and act autonomously over long horizons. At frontier scale, an RL run is an unusually demanding distributed system. Training, sampling, and environment execution run concurrently across a large fleet of accelerators and hosts, exchange data continuously, and have to keep making progress while hardware fails, load shifts, and the research changes underneath them. How well that system holds together determines…

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