Anthropic
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2021
- Size
- 1,500+
- Website
- anthropic.com
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AI Frontier · AI lab
Currently tracking 127 active AI roles, down 32% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $46k–$850k (avg $406k).
Anthropic currently has 151 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which constitute 32% of their openings. Engineering is the most frequent function, followed by Research. The majority of their hiring is concentrated in the United States. Frequent technical tags include evals, model_serving, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on the practical deployment and management of AI systems.
Anthropic currently has 149 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: 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), Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Anthropic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (31%), serving infrastructure (15%), post-training (15%). 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 (130 roles), United Kingdom (18 roles), Canada (6 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at Anthropic most frequently mention: Machine Learning, AI Safety, Production ML Systems, System Design, Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the past 30 days, Anthropic has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a -27% change versus the prior 30 days (33 → 24).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher, Cybersecurity Products Researcher on a product team focused on AI for cybersecurity, identifying, measuring, and operationalizing security capabilities in frontier models for non-expert customers. Involves rapid prototyping, rigorous evaluation, and collaboration with engineers to build usable tools. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel Research Scientist focused on measuring and understanding recursive-self-improvement in AI systems. This role involves designing evaluations, building quantitative models of capability growth, running experiments, and assessing AI R&D acceleration. The output is focused on graded assessments and system-card sections rather than traditional publications. | Eval Gate |
| 9 |
| Research Engineer, Model Evaluations Research Engineer focused on building and operating the evaluation infrastructure for large language models, ensuring their capabilities, knowledge, and safety properties are rigorously measured and validated at scale. This role involves designing evaluations, building distributed systems for running them, monitoring model health during training, and partnering with researchers to interpret results. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, RL Infrastructure (Knowledge Work) Research Engineer focused on the reliability, observability, and infrastructure of training environments and evaluation systems for AI models, ensuring stability and quality as they scale. The role involves proactive hardening, building tooling for early problem detection, and serving as a dedicated owner for environment health and evaluation integrity. | Eval GateData | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Safeguards Labs Research Engineer focused on AI safety, investigating novel methods for detecting misuse, strengthening model safeguards, and building evaluation methodologies for AI systems, particularly in agentic workflows. The role involves leading research projects, designing offline analyses, developing prototypes, and collaborating with production teams. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Anthropic STEM Fellow This role is for a STEM Fellow to work alongside Anthropic's research teams for a few months. Fellows will use their domain expertise to evaluate, improve, and apply Claude's capabilities in their field. This involves designing evaluations, identifying data/techniques for capability gaps, and applying Claude to open problems using various strategies and tools. Projects are scoped to ship within the fellowship period. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Research Lead, Training Insights Research Lead focused on developing and executing strategies for measuring and characterizing model capabilities across training and deployment. This role involves driving original research into new evaluation methodologies, leading a team, and spanning the full lifecycle of model development, from pretraining to deployment. The work includes creating long-horizon evaluations, measuring emerging capabilities, and understanding their development during RL training and post-training. The role also involves cross-organizational collaboration to map evaluation landscapes and identify gaps, shaping the evaluation narrative for model releases, and contributing to the broader research community. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, AI Observability Research Engineer focused on designing and building AI-based monitoring systems to analyze large unstructured datasets, produce structured insights, and develop agentic integrations for investigation and action. The role involves working across the full stack, from core analysis frameworks to user-facing applications, with a direct impact on measuring and mitigating AI misuse and misalignment. This role is critical for scaling human oversight of AI systems. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Emerging Risks) Research Scientist focused on understanding and defending against societal risks from advanced AI models, particularly self-improving and autonomous systems. The role involves designing research experiments, building evals, and producing artifacts to communicate model capabilities and inform product/safeguards decisions. Emphasis on emerging risks from AI integration into the economy and society. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Applied Safety Research Engineer, Safeguards Research-oriented engineer to develop methods for representative, robust, and informative AI safety evaluations. This role involves designing experiments to improve model behavior evaluation, shipping these methods into pipelines that inform model training and deployment, and directly shaping how Anthropic understands and improves model safety across misuse, prompt injection, and user well-being. The role also involves building tooling for policy experts and surfacing findings to drive upstream model improvements. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Model Evaluations Research Engineer focused on designing and implementing Anthropic's model evaluation platform, shaping how models are understood, measured, and improved. This role involves leading the architecture of scalable evaluation infrastructure, implementing high-throughput pipelines for production training, analyzing results to guide model development, and collaborating with research and training teams. The goal is to ensure models meet high standards for capabilities and safety before deployment, influencing training decisions and the overall model roadmap. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Model Evaluations Research Engineer focused on designing and implementing Anthropic's model evaluation platform, influencing training decisions and model development. This role involves leading the architecture of scalable evaluation pipelines, analyzing results, partnering with research teams, and contributing to publications. It sits at the intersection of research and engineering, with a strong emphasis on AI safety and model capabilities. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Model Performance & Quality Research Engineer focused on systematically understanding and monitoring model quality in real-time. This role involves training production models, developing monitoring systems, and creating novel evaluation methodologies, bridging research and production across the model training pipeline. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Model Performance & Quality Research Engineer focused on systematically understanding and monitoring model quality in real-time. This role involves training production models, developing monitoring systems, and creating novel evaluation methodologies, bridging research and production across the model training pipeline. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Societal Impacts Research Scientist focused on empirical studies of AI's societal impacts, developing measurement systems and evaluation frameworks, and translating insights into product/policy recommendations. This role involves both quantitative and qualitative methods, with a focus on areas like economics, well-being, education, and alignment. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (CBRN, Biosecurity) Research Scientist focused on red-teaming AI models for biosecurity risks, involving fine-tuning, threat modeling, and developing novel evaluations. This role bridges AI safety research with domain expertise in biosecurity. | Eval GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy) Research Scientist role focused on developing and productionizing advanced autonomy evaluations for AI Safety Level (ASL) determination of models. This involves risk and capability modeling, designing, implementing, and running large-scale experiments to evaluate autonomous capabilities and forecast future capabilities, with potential for people management. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (RSP Evaluations) Research Engineer focused on developing and running "gold standard" evaluations for catastrophic risks to ensure safe release of frontier AI models, aligning with the Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP). The role involves creating evaluation systems, collaborating with domain experts, building sandboxed testing environments, and informing critical deployment decisions. | Eval Gate | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Societal Impacts Research Engineer focused on building infrastructure for foundational research into AI's societal impact. This involves designing and implementing scalable systems for experiments, evaluations, and data processing, with a strong emphasis on reliability and supporting future research directions. The role requires close collaboration with researchers and policy experts to generate insights and inform strategy. | Eval Gate | 9 |
| Researcher, Education Labs Researcher focused on understanding and measuring how people learn and develop AI fluency, designing studies, building evaluation instruments, and translating insights into product improvements and action research. The role emphasizes creating new measures and tools for AI capability growth. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Biological Safety Research Scientist Research Scientist focused on biological safety for AI systems, applying technical skills to design and develop safety systems that detect harmful behaviors and prevent misuse. This role involves designing and executing capability evaluations, collaborating on training data and safety system training, analyzing performance, and stress-testing safeguards. The goal is to ensure biological safety is embedded throughout the model development lifecycle, balancing AI's potential in life sciences with preventing misuse. | Eval GatePost-train | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Safeguards This role focuses on building and scaling a data-driven culture within an AI company, specifically for safeguards. The Data Scientist will analyze user behavior, define key metrics, identify opportunities for product improvement, design and analyze experiments, and establish data best practices to inform product and commercial strategy for safe, frontier AI deployment. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Member of Staff, AI & Rule of Law This role focuses on researching the impact of AI on democratic institutions and the rule of law, developing frameworks for AI safety evaluations with a legal lens, analyzing institutional vulnerabilities, and exploring novel legal issues and applications of AI in governance. The role requires deep expertise in both AI and law/government/policy, and involves using AI systems like Claude extensively. | Eval Gate | 7 |