Anthropic

Anthropic

Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

H1B sponsorship available$500k-$850kDetected 7 days ago
Machine LearningNLPLLMsExcelLogisticsFPGAHardware DesignResearchCommunication

About the role

  • We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization.
  • Work on cross-cutting RL considerations such as EDA-tool latency optimization and proxy rewards.
  • Conduct experiments and shape our roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
  • Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectively
  • Building scalable RL infrastructure and training methodologies
  • Invent, design, and implement RL environments and evaluations for agentic RTL generation, design (including formal) verification, physical design optimization.
  • Built tooling or automation around chip design flows.

Requirements

  • Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
  • Familiarity with high-level synthesis or architecture simulators.
  • Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Skills

  • Are fluent with industry EDA tools and processes.
  • Have taped out chips and have experience going from spec to silicon.
  • Know how to balance research exploration with engineering implementation.

Compensation

  • $500,000 - $850,000 USD
  • For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Benefits

  • Our Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems.
  • Advancing code generation through reinforcement learning
  • Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • Experience with reinforcement learning, evaluations or environments.

Company info

  • Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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 do sponsor visas!

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