Applied AI Finetuning Engineer, Anthropic
$280-300k
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
AI safety and research company
Open for applications
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$280-300k
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience training or finetuning deep learning models
- 2+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Platform Engineer
- Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing business area
- Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
- Recent experience building production systems with large language models
- The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions
- Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
What the job involves
- As an Applied AI Finetuning Engineer, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by developing bespoke and fine-tuned LLM solutions for top enterprises
- You’ll leverage your customer-facing engineering experience and technical skills to help customize Anthropic's frontier LLMs to the needs of cutting-edge customer applications
- In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you’ll help enterprise partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their products
- You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike
- You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards
- Design and execute high-quality finetuning projects for critical customers, delivering customized AI solutions with exceptional reliability
- Collaborate closely with ML researchers to develop and implement cutting-edge finetuning techniques
- Leverage advanced machine learning skills to optimize finetuning strategies and enhance model performance
- Partner with account executives to understand customer requirements and develop tailored finetuning solutions
- Serve as the primary technical advisor for customers on finetuning projects, offering guidance on integration, deployment, and best practices
- Stay current with the latest advancements in AI and finetuning techniques for large language models
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops and implementation support
- Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI
- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models’ capabilities
Application process
- Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $12.8bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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