Research Engineer, Domain ScalingActive$350K

The opportunity

The Domain Scaling team has the goal to make Claude world-class at real-world knowledge work in domains like finance, healthcare, and legal. This is a unique role that combines executing directly on applied research and data sourcing (real-world and synthetic) to improve our models.

What you'll do

  • Own the data strategy for knowledge work verticals end-to-end, from task sourcing through RL training

  • Manage technical relationships with external data vendors, including: evaluation of data quality and reward design

  • Collaborate with domain experts to design data pipelines and evaluations

  • Explore novel ways of creating RL envs for high value tasks

  • Develop and improve QA frameworks to catch reward hacking and ensure env quality

  • Run generalization experiments to measure how data strategy changes improve model capabilities

What they're looking for

  • Partner with other RL research teams and product teams to translate: capability goals into training envs and evals