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Machine Learning jobs at Anthropic involve hiring researchers and engineers to advance the frontier of AI safety and large language model development. The company sponsors H-1B visa, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas for this function, making it a realistic target for international candidates with strong ML credentials.
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Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role
Anthropic's Safeguards team builds the systems that detect and mitigate misuse of our AI models, from individual policy violations to sophisticated, coordinated attacks. A growing part of that work depends on lightweight detection methods trained on model internals, which let us identify harmful behavior cheaply and at scale. This work feeds directly into Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy commitments. We're looking for an engineer to own the infrastructure behind that research. This is the tooling our researchers rely on to run experiments, train detection methods, and select detections for launch. It sits between research and production: researchers depend on it for fast iteration, and our detection systems depend on it for reliable, correct results as our models continue to change. Running machine learning workloads at our scale often requires solving novel systems problems. You'll identify those problems and build the abstractions, pipelines, and tooling that keep the research loop fast as requirements shift underneath you. Strong candidates will have a track record of solving large-scale systems and data problems and will be excited to grow deep machine learning expertise alongside it.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and scale the infrastructure and data pipelines behind Safeguards machine learning research
- Own the training, evaluation, and scoring workflows researchers use, with a focus on cutting the time between an idea and a result
- Design tooling and interfaces, including libraries and command line tools, that researchers can use directly without needing to understand the systems underneath
- Build correctness and sanity checking into the stack, so results stay trustworthy as models and workloads evolve
- Take the highest-value research workflows from experiments to reliable, production-grade jobs
- Improve the throughput, cost, and reliability of large-scale inference and scoring workloads
- Partner closely with researchers and engineers across Safeguards to understand their workflows, anticipate how their needs will change, and design for that ahead of time
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability, with proficiency in Python
- Experience building and operating data-intensive or distributed systems in production
- Experience building tooling or infrastructure that other engineers or researchers use as a dependency
- Comfort working across the research-to-deployment pipeline, from exploratory experiments to production systems
- Ability to debug performance and correctness problems across an unfamiliar stack
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative approach to technical decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with high-performance, large-scale machine learning systems
- Familiarity with language modeling and transformers, including working with model internals
- Experience with machine learning framework internals, GPU or accelerator programming, or inference optimization
- Experience building experiment tracking, caching layers, or evaluation harnesses for research teams
- Experience with probes, interpretability, or classifier development
- Interest in the misuse risks of AI systems and a desire to work on mitigating them
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 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.
Annual Salary
$350,000—$500,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
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
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! 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 encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role
Anthropic's Safeguards team builds the systems that detect and mitigate misuse of our AI models, from individual policy violations to sophisticated, coordinated attacks. A growing part of that work depends on lightweight detection methods trained on model internals, which let us identify harmful behavior cheaply and at scale. This work feeds directly into Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy commitments. We're looking for an engineer to own the infrastructure behind that research. This is the tooling our researchers rely on to run experiments, train detection methods, and select detections for launch. It sits between research and production: researchers depend on it for fast iteration, and our detection systems depend on it for reliable, correct results as our models continue to change. Running machine learning workloads at our scale often requires solving novel systems problems. You'll identify those problems and build the abstractions, pipelines, and tooling that keep the research loop fast as requirements shift underneath you. Strong candidates will have a track record of solving large-scale systems and data problems and will be excited to grow deep machine learning expertise alongside it.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and scale the infrastructure and data pipelines behind Safeguards machine learning research
- Own the training, evaluation, and scoring workflows researchers use, with a focus on cutting the time between an idea and a result
- Design tooling and interfaces, including libraries and command line tools, that researchers can use directly without needing to understand the systems underneath
- Build correctness and sanity checking into the stack, so results stay trustworthy as models and workloads evolve
- Take the highest-value research workflows from experiments to reliable, production-grade jobs
- Improve the throughput, cost, and reliability of large-scale inference and scoring workloads
- Partner closely with researchers and engineers across Safeguards to understand their workflows, anticipate how their needs will change, and design for that ahead of time
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability, with proficiency in Python
- Experience building and operating data-intensive or distributed systems in production
- Experience building tooling or infrastructure that other engineers or researchers use as a dependency
- Comfort working across the research-to-deployment pipeline, from exploratory experiments to production systems
- Ability to debug performance and correctness problems across an unfamiliar stack
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative approach to technical decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with high-performance, large-scale machine learning systems
- Familiarity with language modeling and transformers, including working with model internals
- Experience with machine learning framework internals, GPU or accelerator programming, or inference optimization
- Experience building experiment tracking, caching layers, or evaluation harnesses for research teams
- Experience with probes, interpretability, or classifier development
- Interest in the misuse risks of AI systems and a desire to work on mitigating them
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 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.
Annual Salary
$350,000—$500,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
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
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! 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 encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Frame your research around safety-relevant ML
Anthropic evaluates ML candidates on alignment, interpretability, and scalable oversight, not just benchmark performance. Tailor your resume and portfolio to show work that connects model behavior to safety properties, even if your background is in a broader ML subfield.
Distinguish which visa category fits you
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas. Australian citizens should pursue the E-3 directly, it bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely. Chilean and Singaporean citizens qualify for H-1B1 visa. Knowing your category before applying helps you ask the right questions during the offer stage.
Build a publication or open-source record before applying
Anthropic's ML hiring skews toward candidates with verifiable research contributions. A paper on arXiv, a meaningful open-source model contribution, or a cited technical blog post gives recruiters a concrete signal that your work meets the depth the role requires.
Use Migrate Mate to target Anthropic ML openings that sponsor
Not every ML job posting at Anthropic signals sponsorship eligibility upfront. Use Migrate Mate to filter for Anthropic roles that have an active sponsorship track record for your visa type, so you're not applying blind.
Ask about LCA timing before signing your offer
Your employer must file a certified Labor Condition Application with DOL before USCIS can receive your H-1B or E-3 petition. If your start date is tight, confirm with your Anthropic recruiter that LCA filing will begin immediately after offer acceptance, delays here push back your entire timeline.
Prepare for technical depth in the interview loop
Anthropic's ML interview process typically includes a research discussion round alongside coding. Have a clear, rehearsed explanation of your most technically demanding project, interviewers probe the decisions behind your approach, not just whether you got results.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Anthropic sponsor H-1B visas for Machine Learnings?
Yes, Anthropic sponsors H-1B visas for Machine Learning roles. The company has a consistent sponsorship track record for this function across research and engineering positions. If you're subject to the H-1B cap and lottery, timing your application cycle matters, confirm with your recruiter whether your role qualifies for cap-exempt filing through a research institution partnership.
How do I apply for Machine Learning jobs at Anthropic?
Applications go through Anthropic's careers page, where ML roles are listed under research and engineering. Most positions require a cover letter or research statement alongside your resume. You can also find and filter Anthropic ML roles that actively support visa sponsorship using Migrate Mate, which surfaces sponsorship-eligible openings specifically for international candidates.
Which visa types does Anthropic sponsor for Machine Learning roles?
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas for Machine Learning positions. H-1B covers most nationalities and requires clearing the annual lottery unless the role qualifies as cap-exempt. H-1B1 is available to Chilean and Singaporean citizens. E-3 is available to Australian citizens only and does not require a lottery, making it faster to process.
What qualifications does Anthropic expect for Machine Learning roles?
Most ML roles at Anthropic expect a graduate degree in a quantitative field, computer science, statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated research experience. Interpretability, RLHF, and large-scale training are recurring technical areas across job postings. Strong candidates typically have peer-reviewed publications, significant open-source contributions, or industry research experience at a frontier AI lab.
How do I handle visa timing if I receive an offer from Anthropic?
Timing depends on your visa category. H-1B petitions are generally filed for an October 1 start date, so an offer arriving mid-year may mean waiting several months to begin. E-3 and H-1B1 visa petitions can be filed year-round with faster turnarounds, often four to eight weeks from LCA certification to USCIS approval. Clarify your expected start date with Anthropic's immigration team as early as the offer stage.