Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)
San Francisco or New York City
$500k-$850k/yrHybridFull Time
Anthropic: Developing safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems.
Bachelor's or equivalent, expertise in ASIC/FPGA design and EDA tools, experience with RTL, verification (UVM, formal methods), physical design and tapeout experience; RL experience and tooling experience preferred.
Reasonable: Developing training paradigms for superhuman programming AI.
Experience in high-accountability engineering cultures; familiarity with Rust, Java/Kotlin, or Go; domain expertise in formal methods/verification and specification-aware programming; experience with proof assistants and verification tools; strong communication with senior engineers/CTOs.
Cogent Security: Autonomous AI agents for enterprise vulnerability remediation.
PhD in Computer Science or related field; strong publication record or open-source contributions; research in formal methods, program analysis, PL, or runtime verification; strong engineering ability and production-minded prototype development; independent, self-starting mindset; able to work in ambiguity.