Research Engineer, Agents

Anthropic

Research Engineer focusing on agentic AI development at Anthropic, collaborating with product teams and creating benchmarks for performance evaluation.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $500,000 - $850,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing complex agentic systems using LLMs, with a strong focus on software engineering and machine learning. Capable of designing benchmarks and collaborating effectively with product teams to enhance agent applications.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Complex Agentic Systems DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringMachine Learning ExperienceLanguage Model PromptingProduct Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Agent Harness DevelopmentBenchmark DesignModel EvaluationPrompt EngineeringLLM Experience

Soft Skills

Good Communication SkillsCollaboration

Industry Keywords

Agentic TasksTechnology SafetyBeneficial Technology

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ideate, develop, and compare different agent harnesses
Design and implement rigorous benchmarks for agentic tasks
Assist with evaluation of models and prompts
Collaborate with product teams to apply agents

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience developing complex agentic systems using LLMs
Significant software engineering and ML experience
Experience prompting and/or building products with language models
Good communication skills
Passion for making technology safe and beneficial

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Optional equity donation matching