500K–850K USD / year
Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling
AIHybrid — San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Published on 2026-10-02
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About this role
The Staff Research Engineer will focus on scaling multi-agent teams to solve complex problems, analyzing performance and coordination as systems grow. This role combines research and engineering, requiring the design of large-scale experiments and the development of reliable systems for agent teams.
About the company
Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.
What you'll do
- Design and run large-scale experiments on agent teams
- Investigate performance and efficiency changes with scaling
- Build and debug systems for large agent teams
- Design evaluations for long-horizon problems
- Create tooling and metrics for researchers
- Collaborate with research teams for experiments
What we're looking for
- Significant software engineering, ML or research engineering experience
- Ownership of large systems or research projects
- Comfortable working from vague questions
- Strong quantitative thinking skills
- Results-oriented with flexibility and impact
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Built evaluations or benchmarks for LLMs
- Background in operations research, statistics, or related fields