Software Engineer, Research Data Platform

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">About the role</h2> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The Research Data Platform team builds the tools that Anthropic's researchers use every day to manage, query, and analyze the data that goes into training and evaluating frontier models. We power the internal applications researchers rely on to monitor RL runs, explore finetuning datasets, and understand what's happening inside their experiments.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">We're looking for engineers who love working directly with users and who excel at building data products — the pipelines that move data out of training runs into queryable storage, and the APIs, libraries, and services researchers use to manage and explore it. This role sits closer to the research workflow than a typical data infrastructure position: you'll often embed with research teams, build ML-specific tooling alongside them, and leverage what our Data Infrastructure team has already built rather than reinventing it.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">We do not require prior ML or AI training experience. If you enjoy working closely with technical users, learning new domains quickly, and building tools people actually want to use, you'll pick up the research context fast.</p> <h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Responsibilities</h2> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build and operate data pipelines that extract data from research training runs and land it in storage systems that are easy and fast to query</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work closely with researchers to design and build APIs, libraries, and web interfaces that support data management, exploration, and analysis</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Develop dataset management, data cataloging, and provenance tooling that researchers use in their day-to-day work</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Embed with research teams to understand their workflows, identify high-leverage tooling opportunities, and ship solutions quickly</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Collaborate with adjacent teams to build on existing systems rather than reinventing them</li> </ul> <h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">You may be a good fit if you</h2> <ul class="[li&amp;]:mb-0 [li&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Have significant software engineering experience, particularly building data-intensive applications or internal tooling</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Enjoy working directly with users, gathering requirements iteratively, and shipping things that get adopted</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Want to learn more about machine learning research</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Care about the societal impacts of your work</li> </ul> <h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Strong candidates may also have experience with</h2> <ul class="[li&amp;]:mb-0 [li&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Large-scale ETL, columnar storage formats, and