Anthropic
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2021
- Size
- 1,500+
- Website
- anthropic.com
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- anthropic.com
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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.
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 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 32 new AI-related roles.
AI Frontier · AI lab
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer, RL Scaling Science Research Engineer focused on scaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) for frontier models. Designs and runs large-scale RL experiments to understand and resolve bottlenecks, builds benchmarks for long-horizon progress, and ships validated findings into production training recipes. Operates at the research/engineering boundary. | Post-trainPretrain | 10 |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Pre-training Research Engineer/Scientist focused on pre-training large language models, with an emphasis on multimodal capabilities. The role involves research, implementation, experimentation, and optimization of training infrastructure and model architectures, contributing to the development of safe and steerable AI systems. |
| Pretrain |
| 10 |
| Research Engineer, Pretraining Research Engineer focused on pretraining large language models, involving research into model architecture, algorithms, data processing, and optimizers, along with scaling training infrastructure and analyzing experiments. The role contributes to the entire stack from low-level optimizations to high-level model design. | 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 Scientist, Interpretability Research Scientist focused on mechanistic interpretability of LLMs, aiming to understand how trained models work by reverse-engineering their parameters and algorithms. The role involves developing methods, designing experiments, creating interpretability features, building infrastructure, and collaborating with other teams. Requires strong scientific research background with some interpretability work, comfort with experimental science, and proficiency in Python. | Post-train | 10 |
| [Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability Research Manager for the Interpretability team, focusing on mechanistic interpretability to understand how large language models work internally and ensure AI safety. The role involves partnering with a research lead on direction, project planning, execution, hiring, and people development, translating research ideas into tangible goals, and overseeing their execution. This is a management role, distinct from individual contributor research scientist or engineer roles. | Post-train | 10 |
| Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling Research Engineer focused on training production pretrained models at scale, involving performance optimization, debugging, experimental design, and incident response during model launches. The role bridges research and engineering, working across the full training stack. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training Research Engineer/Scientist focused on pre-training large language models, involving research in model architecture, algorithms, data processing, and optimizer development, as well as optimizing and scaling training infrastructure. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team Staff Research Engineer focused on building AI systems capable of scientific discovery and long-horizon reasoning, working across the full model stack from training to inference and agentic systems. | PretrainAgent | 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, creating agentic models via tool use for tasks like computer use and autonomous software generation, and improving reasoning abilities. Projects include architecting RL infrastructure, designing training environments and evaluations for RL agents, driving performance improvements, and developing automated testing frameworks. | Post-trainAgent | 10 |
| Technical Program Manager, RL Research Technical Program Manager supporting Reinforcement Learning research, focusing on managing the research lifecycle from pre-training through post-training. The role involves tracking experiments, driving research reviews, establishing processes, and collaborating with various teams to identify blockers and make technical trade-off decisions. Requires a background in ML engineering or research, with hands-on experience in ML training pipelines, RLHF systems, and large-scale data infrastructure. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| 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 GatePost-train | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational) Research Scientist role focused on computational biology, combining deep expertise with frontier AI capabilities to accelerate scientific discovery. Responsibilities include building and maintaining analysis pipelines for large-scale biological data, designing experiments, generating hypotheses, standing up computational infrastructure, and heavily using LLMs and agent frameworks. The role aims to establish how computational biology operates at Anthropic and guide the development of AI systems for biological research. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Lead, Frontier Red Team (Cyber) Lead a new team focused on researching the impacts of advanced AI models on cybersecurity, developing defenses, and steering the world through the next generation of cybersecurity. This role involves leading a research team, publishing frontier research, and building/deploying defenses to give defenders a permanent advantage. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) Research Engineer role focused on applying Reinforcement Learning to chip design, specifically for agentic RTL generation, design verification, and physical design optimization. The role involves inventing RL environments, optimizing EDA tools, conducting experiments, and delivering work into research and production training runs. Requires expertise in ASIC/FPGA design and familiarity with EDA tools, with strong candidates having RL experience. | AgentData | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Life Sciences Research Engineer role focused on developing novel evaluation frameworks and training strategies for AI in life sciences, aiming to accelerate progress in biological discovery and translation. The role involves measuring and improving model performance on complex scientific tasks, with a focus on safety and beneficial impact. | Post-trainEval Gate | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Computer Use Research Engineer focused on teaching AI models (Claude) to perceive, use, and understand computer interfaces, enabling them to reliably and safely operate real software. This involves designing experiments, developing evaluation frameworks, building RL training environments, and collaborating with training and product teams to integrate research advances into production. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Domain Scaling Research Engineer focused on scaling AI models for real-world knowledge work in domains like finance, healthcare, and legal. This role involves owning the end-to-end data strategy, from sourcing tasks to RL training, including designing reward signals, managing external data vendors, and developing QA frameworks to ensure environment quality and prevent reward hacking. It combines applied research with hands-on data work. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) Research Engineer focused on Reinforcement Learning for code generation, aiming to improve models' ability to write, edit, test, debug, and ship software. This role involves designing RL environments, building reward signals, running training experiments, and improving pipeline efficiency, blending research with engineering implementation. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Life Sciences Research Scientist role focused on improving AI model capabilities for life sciences tasks. This involves building agentic tools, designing evaluation benchmarks, and applying post-training techniques to enhance model performance on scientific workflows like bioinformatics, database queries, and literature synthesis. The role bridges ML, software engineering, and biology to make AI a better research assistant in life sciences. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Technical Program Manager, Research This role is a Technical Program Manager for Anthropic's research organization. The TPM will define and build programs for research teams, focusing on areas like compute, evals, and RL environments. They will drive end-to-end execution of complex research initiatives, establish processes, and ensure operational health of RL environments. The role requires a background in ML research or engineering, experience building technical programs from scratch, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-moving research environments. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Research Engineer, Performance RL Research Engineer focused on Reinforcement Learning for code generation and accelerator performance, aiming to improve model reasoning and coding capabilities. The role involves inventing RL environments, conducting experiments, shaping research roadmaps, and delivering work into training runs, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and scaling research innovations. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training Research Engineer focused on post-training of production LLMs, implementing and optimizing techniques like Constitutional AI and RLHF to enhance model capabilities, alignment, and safety. Involves research, pipeline development, evaluation, and debugging at scale. | Post-train | 9 |
| Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber) Research Engineer/Scientist focused on AI-enabled cybersecurity, developing tools and frameworks for autonomous vulnerability discovery, remediation, malware detection, and pentesting. Designs and runs experiments to evaluate AI cyber capabilities and builds infrastructure for AI systems operating in security environments. Translates findings into demonstrations for policymakers and collaborates with external experts. Senior candidates will set research strategy and own the technical roadmap. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Vision Research Engineer/Scientist focused on vision and spatial reasoning for LLMs, working on pretraining, RL, and runtime techniques like agentic harnesses. Involves developing and evaluating multimodal capabilities, creating benchmarks, and partnering with product teams to improve Claude models. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Universes Research Engineer role focused on building next-generation agentic environments for training AI models. This role involves implementing novel approaches, contributing to research direction, designing training environments and methodologies, and building evaluations for capable and safe agentic AI. It blends research and engineering, with a focus on reinforcement learning and complex, long-horizon agentic tasks. | AgentPost-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 |
| Research Engineer, Cybersecurity Reinforcement Learning Research Engineer role focused on applying reinforcement learning to cybersecurity tasks like secure coding and vulnerability remediation, blending research and engineering to train safe AI models. Requires cybersecurity domain expertise and ML/software engineering skills. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens Research Engineer/Scientist role focused on building large-scale ML systems, touching all parts of code and infrastructure, from cluster reliability and job efficiency to running scientific experiments and improving dev tooling. The role involves optimizing ML systems, comparing model variants, scaling training jobs, and designing fault tolerance strategies, with a focus on safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI. | PretrainServe | 9 |
| ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards ML/Research Engineer focused on detecting and mitigating misuse of AI systems, building classifiers, monitoring for harms, evaluating agentic product safety, and conducting research on red-teaming and adversarial robustness. | AgentData | 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, Discovery Research Engineer focused on building and optimizing infrastructure for AI scientist training, evaluation, and inference. The role involves identifying and resolving infra blockers, developing evaluation frameworks, managing data pipelines, and optimizing training/inference for reinforcement learning in distributed environments. | ServeData | 9 |
| Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science Research Engineer/Scientist focused on AI safety and alignment, conducting experiments to understand and steer AI behavior, with a focus on risks from powerful future systems. Involves collaboration with interpretability, fine-tuning, and red teaming teams. Explores scalable oversight, AI control, stress-testing, automated alignment research, alignment assessments, safeguards research, and model welfare. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training Research Engineer focused on post-training of large language models, including techniques like Constitutional AI and RLHF, to enhance model capabilities, alignment, and safety for production Claude models. Involves implementing, scaling, and optimizing these processes, conducting research for improvements, and developing evaluation tools. | Post-train | 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 |
| Research Engineer, Knowledge Team Research Engineer focused on redesigning how LLMs interact with external data sources by designing new information architectures and training models to use them. Responsibilities include implementing information architecture strategies, performing finetuning and RL, building knowledge base eval sets, and designing agentic search capabilities. Requires strong Python, ML research experience, and experience with LLMs. Experience with complex agentic systems, RAG, and distributed information retrieval is a plus. | AgentPost-train | 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 |
| 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 |
| Regional Research Economist, Economic Research This role focuses on researching and measuring the economic impact of AI in a specific region, collaborating with various stakeholders to develop methodologies and translate insights into policy recommendations. It involves using frontier methods in econometrics and machine learning, and contributing to datasets tracking AI's impact on labor markets and productivity. | Data | 7 |
| 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 |
| Transformative AI Research Economist, Economic Research This role focuses on building macroeconomic models of transformative AI and developing scenario-based forecasting tools. It grounds projections in microeconomic data from the Anthropic Economic Index, analyzing millions of real-world AI interactions to understand AI's impact on labor markets, productivity, and economic transformation. The role also involves contributing to AI-powered research tools for economics. | Data | 7 |
| Research Economist, Economic Research Research Economist role focused on measuring and understanding the economic impact of AI systems, developing methodologies for the Anthropic Economic Index, and using frontier econometrics and machine learning methods. The role involves analyzing AI interactions, labor market impacts, and productivity, and translating insights into policy and product recommendations. | Data | 7 |