Anthropic
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work
$350K–$850K
New York City, NY +3 · Full-time · Posted Jan 16, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience; the logistics section says required years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; Anthropic says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer and provides immigration counsel.
About the job
Own end-to-end data strategy for visual capabilities by creating training data, evaluations, and reinforcement-learning environments that improve multimodal knowledge-work capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build evaluations and scale RL environments; develop data strategy and measure generalization on held-out evaluations.
- Manage technical relationships with data vendors, including task specifications, data and annotation quality, and reward design.
- Develop QA frameworks to detect reward hacking and ensure environment quality at scale.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience through industry, academia, or other projects.
- Experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or training data curation for large language or vision-language models.
- Familiarity with the architecture, training, and operation of large vision language models.
- Comfort managing technical vendor relationships and iterating quickly on feedback.
Nice to have
- Experience designing evals or benchmarks for LLMs or vision language models.
- Experience with large-scale pretraining, SL, and RL; deep learning research on images or video; agentic systems; or large-scale ETL and data pipelines.
Pay
$350,000 — $850,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, vision-language models, RL, SL, ETL, Claude
AI focus
Develop visual and spatial reasoning capabilities for AI through training data, RL environments, evaluations, and multimodal experiments.
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