Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London

About the role

Anthropic's ML Performance and Scaling team trains our production pretrained models, work that directly shapes the company's future and our mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems. As a Research Engineer on this team, you'll ensure our frontier models train reliably, efficiently, and at scale. This is demanding, high-impact work that requires both deep technical expertise and a genuine passion for the craft of large-scale ML systems. This role lives at the boundary between research and engineering. You'll work across our entire production training stack: performance optimization, hardware debugging, experimental design, and launch coordination. During launches, the team works in tight lockstep, responding to production issues that can't wait for tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Own critical aspects of our production pretraining pipeline, including model operations, performance optimization, observability, and reliability
• Debug and resolve complex issues across the full stack-from hardware errors and networking to training dynamics and evaluation infrastructure
• Design and run experiments to improve training efficiency, reduce step time, increase uptime, and enhance model performance
• Respond to on-call incidents during model launches, diagnosing problems quickly and coordinating solutions across teams
• Build and maintain production logging, monitoring dashboards, and evaluation infrastructure
• Add new capabilities to the training codebase, such as long context support or novel architectures
• Collaborate closely with teammates across SF and London, as well as with Tokens, Architectures, and Systems teams
• Contribute to the team's institutional knowledge by documenting systems, debugging approaches, and lessons learned
• You May Be a Good Fit If You:
• Have hands-on experience training large language models, or deep expertise with JAX, TPU, PyTorch, or large-scale distributed systems
• Genuinely enjoy both research and engineering work-you'd describe your ideal split as roughly 50/50 rather than heavily weighted toward one or the other
• Are excited about being on-call for production systems, working long days during launches, and solving hard problems under pressure
• Thrive when working on whatever is most impactful, even if that changes day-to-day based on what the production model needs
• Excel at debugging complex, ambiguous problems across multiple layers of the stack
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively, especially when coordinating across time zones or during high-stress incidents
• Are passionate about the work itself and want to refine your craft as a research engineer
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and responsible scaling
• Strong Candidates May Also Have:
• Previous experience training LLM's or working extensively with JAX/TPU, PyTorch, or other ML frameworks at scale
• Contributed to open-source LLM frameworks (e.g., open_lm, llm-foundry, mesh-transformer-jax)
• Published research on model training, scaling laws, or ML systems
• Experience with production ML systems, observability tools, or evaluation infrastructure
• Background as a systems engineer, quant, or in other roles requiring both technical depth and operational excellence
• What Makes This Role Unique:
• We're building a close-knit team of people who genuinely care about doing excellent work together. If you're someone who wants to be part of training the models that will define the future of AI-and you're excited about the full reality of what that entails-we'd love to hear from you.
• Location: This role requires working in-office 5 days per week in London.
• Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
• 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 r

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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.

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