Anthropic Machine Learning Engineer jobs
26 US Research Engineer reqs open, with posted base pay from $300K to $850K.
The Research Engineer role
Anthropic research engineers sit inside research teams — pretraining, post-training, RL, interpretability, alignment — in a blended research and engineering role that values code quality and pairing. Hiring is rolling through Greenhouse and mostly in office, and the only early-career route is the paid Fellows program.
A Research Engineer ladder with Staff and Staff+ tiers and no separate MLE title, across Pretraining, Production Model Post-Training, RL (Code, Computer Use, Cyber, Chip Design), Interpretability, Alignment, Discovery and Safeguards ML, plus TPU kernel and GPU performance engineers; applied-AI titles are posted separately as Applied AI Engineer (3 US) and Applied AI Architect (10 US).
Anthropic ML engineer salary
Base: the posted range on the live ‘Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training’ req (SF, NYC, Seattle; first published Apr 1, 2025, updated Aug 21, 2026). The 23 non-Staff US RE and MLE reqs post $300,000–$850,000, with RL and Computer Use at $500,000–$850,000. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi has no Anthropic Machine Learning Engineer or Research Engineer data.
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