Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling at anthropic
Company: anthropic
Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Workplace: On-site
Seniority: Staff+
Category: Engineering
Compensation: ~£395k–£672k
Posted: 2026-10-02
Stack: rust, go, aws, llm
Role overview
Large teams of agents are starting to solve problems no single agent can, from rewriting major codebases to formalizing landmark mathematics. Our team studies how these teams scale: what happens to performance, cost and coordination as the number of agents, the compute budget and the length of the task grow, and what has to change to keep getting returns from that scale. We build the platform and evaluations Anthropic uses to run and measure large agent teams, and other…