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Research Engineer

London

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Anthropic

Anthropic

501-1,000 employees

Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems

Consulting
Hardware
Enterprise Software
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$230k - $515kAnnually

+ Equity

Mid, Senior

London, UK

Category
Applied Machine Learning
AI Research
AI & Machine Learning
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Pytorch
Requirements
  • Have significant software engineering experience
  • 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 learn more about machine learning research
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work
  • High performance, large-scale ML systems
  • GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals
  • Language modeling with transformers
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Large-scale ETL
Responsibilities
  • Optimizing the throughput of a new attention mechanism
  • Comparing the compute efficiency of two Transformer variants
  • Making a Wikipedia dataset in a format models can easily consume
  • Scaling a distributed training job to thousands of GPUs
  • Writing a design doc for fault tolerance strategies
  • Creating an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language model

Anthropic is at the forefront of building reliable and interpretable AI systems, making it an appealing place to work for those passionate about advancing natural language processing, human feedback, reinforcement learning, and code generation. Employees have the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and development, contributing significantly to the field and ensuring AI technologies are both effective and responsible. Working in such an innovative environment encourages professional growth and collaboration among experts in AI research.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$5.8B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

75%

1 year growth

226%

2 year growth

957%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The $450 million Series C financing round underscores strong investor confidence in Anthropic's growth potential.
  • The launch of Claude Pro, a subscription-based version of its generative AI model, opens new revenue streams and enhances user engagement.
  • Anthropic's collaboration with Menlo Ventures to launch the $100 million Anthology Fund positions it as a key player in accelerating AI startup innovation.

What critics are saying

  • The competitive landscape in generative AI is intensifying, with rivals like OpenAI and Cohere continuously releasing more powerful models.
  • The rapid expansion and scaling efforts, such as launching new apps and funds, may strain Anthropic's resources and operational capabilities.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Anthropic's focus on responsible AI deployment, including measures like invisible watermarks, sets it apart in the AI landscape.
  • The launch of the $100 million Anthology Fund in collaboration with Menlo Ventures highlights Anthropic's commitment to fostering AI innovation.
  • Anthropic's multi-platform support for its Claude AI app, including vision capabilities, offers a seamless user experience across web, iOS, and Android.