# Research Engineer, Chip Design RL at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5459098008?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-research-engineer-chip-design-rl/

## About the role

We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to design silicon. Hardware design is difficult and unforgiving – exactly the sort of domain we want Claude to excel at. You'll leverage your chip design expertise and turn it into tasks and signals for models to learn from. Specifically, you will: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Invent, design, and implement RL environments and evaluations for agentic RTL generation, design (including formal) verification, physical design optimization
- Work on cross-cutting RL considerations such as EDA-tool latency optimization and proxy rewards
- Conduct experiments and shape our roadmap
- Deliver your work into research and production training runs
- Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across and outside Anthropic

Tags: AI Research & Engineering

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