Research Engineer, Computer Use

About the Role

The Computer Use team at Anthropic focuses on teaching Claude to see, use, and understand computer interfaces. As a Research Engineer on the team, you will work on advancing our models' ability to reliably and safely operate real software.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and run experiments to improve Claude's perception and agentic capabilities
• Develop robust, reliable evaluation frameworks for measuring our models' ability to complete complex computer tasks
• Build and improve computer use and vision reinforcement learning training environments
• Create pipelines and tools to test and validate complex RL environments
• Collaborate with teams across the model training and infrastructure stack to improve our production training setup
• Partner with product teams to bring research advances into production

Minimum Qualifications:

• Software engineering experience and proficiency in Python
• Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine learning models
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style
• Care about the societal impacts and safety of your work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience training models for computer use or other agentic capabilities
• Experience with reinforcement learning, particularly in long-horizon or sparse-reward settings
• Familiarity with multimodal model training
• Experience building evaluations or benchmarks for agentic systems
• Experience building reinforcement learning environments, simulation systems, or large-scale ML infrastructure
• Experience working closely with product teams to drive model improvements

Logistics

• Annual Salary: $500,000-$850,000 USD
• 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
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.