Staff+ Research Scientist, Multi-Agent

About the role

Multi-Agent systems are becoming an increasingly important part of how AI is deployed, whether via fast small-model subagents inside a product, or large groups of agents solving very large problems . Training Claude to be maximally effective and safe within large groups is a challenging new area of reinforcement learning, and represents a new axis for scaling test time compute.

We are looking for researchers who have experience training multi-agent systems at the largest scale and an appreciation for the incentives and mechanism design that come into play.

Responsibilities

• Help create and optimize environments and data for model training that maximize Claude’s performance or ease of use on agentic tasks
• Ideate, develop, and compare the performance of different agent harness configurations (eg memory, context management, communication architectures for agents)
• Design and implement rigorous quantitative benchmarks for large scale agentic tasks
• Work with our product org to find solutions to our most vexing challenges in applying agents to our products

You may be a good fit if you

• Have experience with large-scale RL on language models
• Have experience training multi-agent systems
• Enjoy going deeply into the roots of a problem and understanding its foundations, rather than its surface.
• Have good communication skills and an interest in working with other researchers on difficult tasks
• Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
• Are excited for a mission-driven org with fast-paced, impactful work

Representative projects

• Design and build reinforcement learning environments to train groups of Claudes how to solve problems together efficiently
• Design and build agent affordances that unlock new capabilities and scales of agents, while keeping the Bitter Lesson in mind
• Design and build a novel eval that measures how large teams of agents interact in groups to solve problems

Annual Salary

$500,000 — $850,000 USD