Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers at anthropic
Company: anthropic
Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Workplace: On-site
Seniority: Mid-level
Category: Data
Compensation: ~£395k–£672k
Posted: 2026-09-29
Stack: python, rust, go, aws
Role overview
Reinforcement learning is how Claude learns to reason, write code, and act autonomously over long horizons. The RL Scaling team works on how RL scales: what happens to throughput, stability, and learning efficiency as models get larger, episodes get longer, and compute grows by orders of magnitude, and what has to change in our algorithms and systems to keep getting returns from that scale. This role sits squarely across research and engineering. You'll develop…