Anthropic · San Francisco/New York City/Seattle · Hybrid

Research Engineer, Domain Scaling

6/23/2026

Description

The Domain Scaling team has the goal to make Claude world-class at real-world knowledge work in domains like finance, healthcare, and legal. This is a unique role that combines executing directly on applied research and data sourcing (real-world and synthetic) to improve our models. You'll own the end-to-end process of creating RL environments for new capabilities: identifying high-value tasks, designing reward signals, managing vendor relationships, and measuring impact on model performance.

Responsibilities

  • Own the data strategy for knowledge work verticals end-to-end, from task sourcing through RL training

  • Manage technical relationships with external data vendors, including evaluation of data quality and reward design

  • Collaborate with domain experts to design data pipelines and evaluations

  • Explore novel ways of creating RL envs for high value tasks

  • Develop and improve QA frameworks to catch reward hacking and ensure env quality

  • Run generalization experiments to measure how data strategy changes improve model capabilities

  • Partner with other RL research teams and product teams to translate capability goals into training envs and evals

Qualifications

  • Have experience with fine-tuning large language models for specific domains or real-world use cases

  • Have experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or training data curation for LLMs

  • Are comfortable managing technical vendor relationships and iterating quickly on feedback

  • Find value in reading through datasets to understand them and spot issues

  • Have strong cross-functional collaboration skills

  • Are passionate about making AI more useful and accessible across different industries

  • Are excited about a role that includes a combination of applied research and hands-on data work

Nice to have

  • Have experience training production ML systems

  • Have experience designing evals or benchmarks for LLMs

  • Have domain expertise in a vertical where we would like to make our models more useful

  • Have experience working with external vendors or technical partners

Benefits

USD 350000-850000

Application

View listing at origin and apply!

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