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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers is open at Anthropic in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA. The posting gives a salary of $500K - $850K. Posted on Sep 29, 2026, and still on Anthropic’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

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…

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