# Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/research-engineer-visual-knowledge-work-anthropic-5b8e39e3 Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work at Anthropic, an on-site role based in New York, New York, USA. Experience level: 7+ Years. Pay stated in the posting: $350,000 to $850,000. Posted on 16 January 2026, read from Anthropic's own careers page (Greenhouse), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Anthropic has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role). Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Anthropic](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/anthropic) - Location: New York, New York, USA - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $350,000 to $850,000 - Posted: Jan 16, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 7+ Years - Source: Anthropic's careers page (Greenhouse), re-checked daily ## Visa sponsorship The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Confirm with the employer before you apply. Anthropic had H-1B petitions approved for 189 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/anthropic#h1b-record) ## About this role About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role We're looking for a research engineer who believes that visual and spatial reasoning are core to fully unlocking the capabilities of LLMs. On the Vision team, you'll own the end-to-end process of creating training data and RL environments targeting visual knowledge work: identifying long-horizon and vision-heavy tasks, building evals, designing rewards, and scaling data. This is a unique role that combines applied research with hands-on data work. It's also highly collaborative - you'll partner with external vendors, pretraining, RL, and product teams to make sure the environments you build translate into real-world knowledge work capabilities. What you'll do: • Own the data strategy for vision capabilities end-to-end, from building evals and scaling RL environments • Manage technical relationships with external data vendors, including writing task specifications, evaluating visual data and annotation quality, and iterating on reward design • Develop and improve QA frameworks that catch reward hacking and ensure environment quality at scale • Run generalization experiments to measure how data strategy changes improve multimodal capabilities on held-out evaluations • Partner with pretraining, RL, and product teams, and do the science that shows we’re all rowing in the same direction You may be a good fit if you: • Have 7+ years of ML, computer vision, and software engineering experience through industry, academia, or other projects • Have experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or training data curation for large language or vision-language models • Are familiar with the architecture, training, and operation of large vision language models • Are comfortable managing technical vendor relationships and iterating quickly on feedback • Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact • Care about the societal impacts of your work Strong candidates may also have experience with: • Designing evals or benchmarks for LLMs or vision language models • Large-scale pretraining, SL, and RL on language models • Deep learning research on images, video, or other modalities • Developing complex agentic systems using LLMs • Large-scale ETL and data pipeline development Representative projects: • Writing a vendor-facing specification for a new family of visual RL training tasks, then iterating with the vendor on coverage, quality, and reward design • Running experiments to determine ideal training datamixes and parameters for a synthetically generated vision dataset • Finetuning Claude to maximize its performance using a particular set of agent tools/skills The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $350,000 - $850,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links - visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. How we're different We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large- Description from Anthropic's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/research-engineer-visual-knowledge-work-anthropic-5b8e39e3) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Anthropic's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Anthropic 11 open analyst roles on Real Analyst Jobs. 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