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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:
We are looking for Research Engineers to help us redesign how Claude interacts with external data sources. Many of the paradigms for how data and knowledge bases are organized assume human consumers and constraints. This is no longer true in a world of LLMs! Your job will be to design new architectures for how information is organized, and train language models to optimally use those architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing from scratch new information architecture strategies
- Performing finetuning and reinforcement learning to teach language models how to interact with new information architectures
- Building “hard” knowledge base eval sets to help identify failure modes of how language models work with external data
- Designing and evaluating advanced agentic search capabilities.
You may be a good fit if you:
- Are a very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code that your teammates love using
- Have good machine learning research experience
- Have experience developing software that utilizes Large Language Models such as Claude
- Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Want to partner with world-class ML researchers to develop new LLM capabilities
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
- Have clear written and verbal communication
Strong candidates will also have experience with:
- Collaborating with product teams to quickly prototype and deliver innovative solutions
- Building complex agentic systems that utilize LLMs
- Developing scalable distributed information retrieval systems, such as search engines, knowledge graphs, RAG, indexing, ranking, query understanding, and distributed data processing
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 - $850,000 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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Align your degree field to the role
H-1B1 visa requires a specialty occupation with a directly related degree. For Research Engineer roles, ensure your transcript language maps to your target subdomain, whether that's materials science, electrical engineering, or computer science, not just a general engineering degree.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search Migrate Mate to find companies that have already filed Labor Condition Applications for Research Engineer roles. Employers with LCA history have cleared the DOL process before and are far more likely to move quickly on an H-1B1 offer.
Run the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating
Your employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for your specific role and location. Pull the OFLC Wage Search figures for your SOC code and metropolitan area before entering salary discussions so you know the DOL floor your offer must clear.
Verify your employer's E-Verify enrollment early
H-1B1 employers must be enrolled in E-Verify. Confirm this status before you invest time in interviews. Companies without enrollment can't legally sponsor you, and adding it mid-hiring process often stalls or kills the offer entirely.
Get your LCA certified before scheduling the consulate
Your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL and must receive certification before you can apply for the H-1B1 visa. DOL certifies most LCAs within seven business days, but schedule your U.S. consulate appointment only after certification is confirmed.
Prepare a research portfolio that maps to O*NET
Consular officers assess whether your role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Review the O*NET profile for Research Engineers and frame your project descriptions, publications, and lab experience to directly reflect the theoretical and applied knowledge requirements listed there.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Research Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes, Research Engineer roles typically qualify because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as electrical engineering, materials science, or computer science. The employer must demonstrate the role's duties require that specialized degree. Reviewing the O*NET occupation profile for Research Engineers before your interview helps confirm alignment between your credentials and the position's requirements.
How does H-1B1 Singapore differ from H-1B for Research Engineer positions?
H-1B1 Singapore skips the lottery entirely and is processed at the U.S. consulate rather than through USCIS. The annual cap is 5,400 for Singaporeans and has never been exhausted. The trade-off is that H-1B visa1 doesn't allow dual intent, meaning you can't simultaneously pursue permanent residency while on H-1B1 status, which H-1B holders can do.
How do I find employers who will sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas for Research Engineer jobs?
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified Labor Condition Application filing history for Research Engineer roles. Companies that have filed LCAs before already understand the DOL certification process and are more likely to proceed with an H-1B1 offer. Cold outreach to research divisions at companies with no LCA history typically stalls at the HR approval stage.
Can I switch Research Engineer employers while on H-1B1 Singapore status?
Yes, but unlike H-1B portability, you can't start working for the new employer before the new H-1B1 is approved. Your new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with DOL and you'll need a new consular stamp. Build a buffer of at least two to three months when planning a job change to avoid a status gap.
What documents should I bring to the U.S. consulate for an H-1B1 Research Engineer interview?
Bring your certified Labor Condition Application, offer letter specifying the Research Engineer role and salary, degree transcripts and certificates showing your qualifying field, and any publications or patents that demonstrate specialty knowledge. Consular officers may ask how your academic background directly applies to the specific research duties in your offer letter, so prepare concrete examples.
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