Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 5H AGO
Frontier labonsite$350k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Run elegant ML experiments to understand and steer powerful AI systems.
- Develop scalable oversight and AI control for future frontier models.
- Stress-test safety by building model organisms of misalignment.
What they offer
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A collaborative scientist-engineer who loves fast-moving experimental research and cares deeply about making AI helpful, honest and harmless. You pick up slack and thrive turning ideas into rigorous experiments on frontier systems.
Requirements
- Significant software, ML, or research engineering experience
- Experience contributing to empirical AI research projects
- Familiarity with technical AI safety research
- Prefer fast-moving collaborative projects to extensive solo efforts
- Pick up slack, even outside job description
- Care about the impacts of AI
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- remote policy
- Hybrid: in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available but not guaranteed for every role and candidate
- hiring process
- All interviews conducted in Python
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google