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Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA

$500,000–850,000/yr

Posted Sep 29, 2026

What you’d do

Build and operate the large-scale distributed systems behind reinforcement learning training, sampling, and environment execution across accelerator fleets, keeping runs progressing through hardware failures and shifting load. Found on the employer's careers page on Oct 17, 2026. Apply through the link.

You’ll need

  • Strong Python plus Rust, C++, or Go
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, consensus, failure recovery

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