Research Engineer, Human Computer Interfaces

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.
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.
About the role We are seeking an innovative Research Engineer to lead the introduction of new interaction modes for Claude, our cutting-edge AI assistant, by combining expertise in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, and ML Research. This role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI interaction and create more intuitive and user-friendly experiences. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of human-AI interaction and creating more natural and intuitive experiences, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of conversational AI at Anthropic!
What you will be working on: Designing and experimenting with novel interaction modes for Claude across various product surfaces, including mobile and desktop apps
Developing appropriate fine-tuning methods to seamlessly integrate interaction modes into Claude's natural language processing capabilities
Conducting user research on claude.ai customers to gain insights from real-world usage patterns and inform design decisions
Collaborating with product engineering and design teams to implement new interaction modes into production
You may be a good fit if you: Possess exceptional front-end software engineering skills, with proficiency in technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
Are proficient in Python programming and have experience developing software that utilizes large language models like Claude
Have some experience with fine-tuning large language models or other machine learning techniques (we'll teach you - we don't need you to be an expert!)
Have a user-centric approach and a keen interest in understanding user behavior and needs
Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
Enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, including researchers, engineers, and designers
Care about the societal impacts of your work and strive to create inclusive and accessible AI experiences
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong candidates will also have experience with: Have a background in HCI, UI/UX design, or a related field
Designing and conducting user research studies to evaluate interaction modes and gather feedback
Developing interactive prototypes or proof-of-concepts to test and iterate on new interaction ideas
Collaborating with product teams to quickly prototype and deliver innovative solutions
Staying up-to-date with the latest research and trends in HCI, AI interaction design, and natural language interfaces
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$280,000—$485,000 USD
Logistics Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits Anthropic's compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents. 401(k) plan with 4% matching. 22 weeks of paid parental leave. Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness. Fertility benefits via Carrot. Daily lunches and snacks in our office. Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area. UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant. Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary). 21 weeks of paid parental leave. Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! Health cash plan. Life insurance and income protection. Daily lunches and snacks in our office. This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic's good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial. How we're different We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us! Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.