Research Resident
Anthropic · London, UK
Frontier labonsite
At a glance
Highlights
- Fixed-term 6-week to 6-month residency on a scoped AI safety project.
- Mentored empirical alignment research with leading Anthropic scientists.
- Explore scalable oversight, robustness, interpretability and safeguards.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Ideal candidate
Ambitious technical leader — e.g. professor, founder or staff engineer — eager to pivot to full-time empirical AI research to keep AI safe and beneficial. Collaborative, fast-moving builder who implements quickly and communicates clearly.
Requirements
- Motivated by ensuring AI is safe and beneficial for society
- Excited to transition to full-time empirical AI research
- Led ambitious work as professor, technical founder or staff-level engineer
- Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments
- Implement ideas quickly and communicate clearly
- hiring process
- Initial application, recruiter screen, technical assessment, research discussion and reference check; applications close November 22, 2026 with offers expected January 2027.
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
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