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Currently tracking 124 active AI roles, with 106 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $46k–$850k (avg $405k).
Anthropic has 145 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, comprising 28% of the total. Engineering is the most frequent function, with 74 listings, followed by Research with 51. The company is primarily hiring in the United States, with 118 positions, and the United Kingdom, with 22. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deployment and evaluation of AI systems. In the last 30 days, Anthropic posted 16 new AI roles, a 47% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Anthropic currently has 132 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Applied AI Architect, Industries (2), Regional Research Economist, Economic Research (2), Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) (2), Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training (2), Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Anthropic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (28%), serving infrastructure (17%), post-training (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Anthropic is hiring AI talent in: United States (106 roles), United Kingdom (20 roles), Canada (6 roles), Ireland (5 roles).
Job postings at Anthropic most frequently reference: model serving, evals, llm observability, agent orchestration, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, Anthropic has posted 29 new AI-related roles. That is a +61% change versus the prior 30 days (18 → 29).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer, Science of Scaling Research Engineer/Scientist on the Science of Scaling team, focused on developing next-generation large language models. The role involves research at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical engineering, contributing to safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI systems. Responsibilities include research into the science of converting compute into intelligence, leading research projects, designing and analyzing experiments, optimizing training infrastructure, and developing dev tooling. Requires significant software engineering experience, proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, and a results-oriented approach. Strong candidates may have experience with JAX, reinforcement learning, high-performance ML systems, accelerators, Kubernetes, OS internals, transformer architectures, large-scale ETL, and distributed training at scale. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Research Engineer, Pretraining |
| Pretrain |
| 10 |
| Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) Research Engineer focused on Reinforcement Learning to advance capabilities and safety of large language models. This role involves implementing novel approaches, contributing to research direction, and creating agentic models for tasks like computer use and autonomous software generation, while also improving reasoning abilities and developing prototypes. Key responsibilities include architecting RL infrastructure, designing training environments and methodologies, driving performance improvements, and collaborating across teams. | AgentPost-train | 10 |
| Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) The RL Velocity team owns the efficiency and reliability of the RL Science stack, building and improving the core platform for RL training runs to remove bottlenecks and enable faster iteration. This role focuses on ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and research tooling to improve the velocity and reliability of RL training at scale. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering at Anthropic, responsible for leading a team that embeds with strategic customers to ship production AI applications and agent deployments built on Claude. This player-coach role involves hiring, developing, and mentoring engineers, overseeing customer engagements, reviewing technical architectures, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive AI transformation for enterprise clients. | Agent | 9 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — Reinforcement Learning This is a research fellowship program focused on Reinforcement Learning (RL) within AI safety. Fellows will work on empirical projects, potentially using external infrastructure, with the goal of producing public outputs like paper submissions. The program emphasizes mentorship from Anthropic researchers and provides a stipend and compute funding. Key activities include building model-based tools for data quality, understanding generalization, and creating RL environments for capabilities and safety tasks. | Post-train | 9 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — AI Safety This is a research fellowship program focused on AI safety, aiming to foster talent in empirical AI research. Fellows will work on projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities, using external infrastructure and external models, with the goal of producing public outputs like paper submissions. Key research areas include Scalable Oversight, Adversarial Robustness and AI Control, Model Organisms, Model Internals / Mechanistic Interpretability, and AI Welfare. | Post-train | 9 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — AI Security This is a research fellowship program focused on AI safety and security, aiming to produce public outputs like paper submissions. Fellows will use external infrastructure and open-source models, working on empirical projects with mentorship from Anthropic researchers. | Post-train | 9 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program Anthropic's Fellows Program offers a 4-month full-time research opportunity focused on AI safety and related areas. Fellows will use external infrastructure and open-source models to conduct empirical projects, aiming for public outputs like paper submissions, with mentorship from Anthropic researchers. The program is designed to foster AI research and engineering talent, regardless of previous experience, and emphasizes safety, interpretability, and steerability of AI systems. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds with strategic customers to drive AI adoption by shipping advanced AI applications built on Claude models. Collaborates with customer teams, Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering to solve business challenges using frontier AI, focusing on safety and reliability. Operates autonomously, builds customer relationships, and identifies new AI deployment opportunities. | Agent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London Research Engineer focused on pretraining and scaling large language models, involving performance optimization, debugging, experimental design, and ensuring reliability of production training pipelines. The role is highly operational, requiring on-call incident response during model launches, and involves building and maintaining training infrastructure and codebase capabilities. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science - London Research Engineer/Scientist focused on AI safety and alignment, conducting experimental research to understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. The role involves testing robustness of safety techniques, running multi-agent RL experiments, building tooling for evaluating jailbreaks, and contributing to research papers. Collaboration with Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and Frontier Red Team is expected. | Post-trainEval Gate | 9 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — ML Systems & Performance This is a research fellowship program focused on AI systems and performance, with the goal of producing public outputs like paper submissions. Fellows will work on empirical projects, potentially involving building ML systems, data pipelines, or infrastructure for accelerators, using external infrastructure and open-source models. | Data | 8 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Inference Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide. Responsible for the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators, maximizing compute efficiency and enabling research. | Serve | 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer Applied AI Engineer to serve as a technical advisor for companies building on the Claude Developer Platform, focusing on implementation, agent design, and building AI applications. Responsibilities include technical engagements, developing evaluation frameworks, designing architectures, and creating technical resources. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Inference Staff Software Engineer on the Inference team responsible for building and maintaining systems that serve Claude to millions of users. Focuses on maximizing compute efficiency and enabling research through high-performance inference infrastructure, involving distributed systems, request routing, and LLM inference optimization. | Serve | 8 |
| Applied AI Architect, Startups This role focuses on partnering with startups to help them build and deploy LLM-powered solutions using Anthropic's Claude Developer Platform. The Solutions Architect will guide technical architecture decisions, win technical evaluations, and provide feedback to product and engineering teams. The role requires deep technical proficiency in building and scaling AI products, with hands-on experience in LLM application development, evaluation frameworks, and modern AI architectures. | Agent | 8 |
| Regional Research Economist, Economic Research Research Economist focused on measuring and understanding AI's economic impact, developing new methodologies, and collaborating with external partners on policy interventions. Utilizes frontier econometrics, machine learning, and structural estimation methods. | Data | 7 |
| Anthropic Fellows Program — The Anthropic Institute Fellows (Economics & Policy) This is a research fellowship program focused on empirical projects related to AI's economic and societal impacts, with the goal of producing public outputs like research papers. Fellows will use external infrastructure and work with mentors to explore areas such as AI's economic effects, labor markets, and AI-enabled cyber/bio capabilities. | Data | 7 |
| Applied AI Architect, Public Sector Applied AI Architect role focused on pre-sales and technical advisory for public sector clients in UK and Northern Europe, helping them integrate and deploy Anthropic's Claude LLM. The role involves understanding customer requirements, architecting LLM solutions, guiding integration with existing systems, and developing evaluation frameworks, while adhering to public sector compliance and security guidelines. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Engineer, Safeguards Data Engineer for the Safeguards team, responsible for building data pipelines, warehousing solutions, and analytical tooling to support AI safety and trust efforts. The role focuses on data infrastructure for monitoring models, preventing misuse, and ensuring user well-being. | Data | 7 |
| Head of International Applied AI Architecture, Partnerships This role leads a team of Partner Solutions Architects focused on driving the adoption and deployment of Anthropic's AI products (Claude) through global and regional system integrators, cloud partners, and strategic technology partners in international markets. The role involves managing and mentoring the team, serving as a senior technical thought partner for GTM partnerships, enabling partner AI practices, developing joint solutions, supporting partner-led pre-sales engagements, and representing Anthropic at international partner events. The focus is on enabling partners to incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their solutions and customer engagements to accelerate indirect revenue and execute international GTM strategy, while maintaining safety standards. | Ship | 7 |
| Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Industries Manager of Applied AI Architecture for Northern European Industries at Anthropic, responsible for driving AI adoption in large enterprises by leading a pre-sales technical team. This role involves consultative sales, technical guidance, team management, and developing GTM strategies to deploy Anthropic's AI products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, API) and address customer business needs while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering at Anthropic. This role focuses on improving the reliability, robustness, and resilience of AI serving systems, specifically for large language models like Claude. Responsibilities include developing SLOs, designing monitoring and observability, assisting with high-availability infrastructure, leading incident response for critical AI services, and supporting the reliability of safeguard model serving. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building foundational systems for AI safety, including infrastructure for data management, metric and evaluation systems, and tooling for human and agentic review. The role involves ensuring the day-to-day running of Safeguards systems and building robust, reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms at scale. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Systems Staff Software Engineer, Systems role at Anthropic focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports AI clusters at massive scale. This includes compute uptime, resilience, networking, and reliability challenges, enabling frontier AI research and safe deployment to millions of users. The role requires deep knowledge of distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms, with experience in systems languages and leading infrastructure projects. | Serve | 7 |