Anthropic · San Francisco · Hybrid
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Virtual Collaborator
11/4/2025
Description
We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help us train Claude specifically for virtual collaborator workflows. While Claude excels at general tasks, a lot of knowledge work requires targeted training on real organizational data and workflows. Your job will be to design and implement reinforcement learning environments that transform Claude into the best virtual collaborator, training on everything from navigating internal knowledge to creating financial models.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing reinforcement learning pipelines specifically targeted at virtual collaborator use cases (productivity, organizational navigation, vertical domains)
- Building and scaling our data creation platform for generating high-quality, open-ended tasks with domain experts and crowdworkers Integrating real organizational data to create authentic training environments
- Developing robust rubric-based evaluation systems that maintain quality while avoiding reward hacking
- Training Claude on advanced document manipulation, including understanding, enhancing, and co-creating
- Partnering directly with product teams to ensure training aligns with shipped features
Qualifications
- Are a very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code that your teammates love using
- Have strong machine learning experience
- Thrive at the intersection of research and product, with a pragmatic approach to solving real-world problems
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and can balance research rigor with shipping deadlines
- Enjoy collaborating across multiple teams (data operations, model training, product)
- Can context-switch between research problems and product engineering tasks
- Care about making AI genuinely helpful for everyday enterprise workflows
- Building human-in-the-loop training systems or crowdsourcing platforms
- Working with enterprise tools and APIs (Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Slack, etc.)
- Developing evaluation frameworks for open-ended tasks
- Domain expertise in finance, legal, or healthcare workflows
- Creating scalable data pipelines with quality control mechanisms
- Reward modeling and preventing reward hacking in RL systems
- Translating product requirements into technical training objectives
Benefits
$340,000 - $560,000 USD