Research Scientist, Life Sciences
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsite$300k–$320k
At a glance
Highlights
- Make Claude a superhuman life sciences research assistant.
- Ship agentic tools for bioinformatics, notebooks and literature review.
- Design benchmarks measuring model skill on biology tasks.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A computational biologist turned builder who loves shipping tools researchers actually use and thrives in ambiguity. You care about accelerating discovery with AI while upholding high ethical standards.
Requirements
- Experience applying ML and software engineering to biological problems
- Experience in drug discovery, pharma/biotech, or academic research with real scientific workflows
- Strong software engineering skills with production-quality Python and large codebases
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning ML models
- Track record of shipping computational tools or pipelines used by biologists
- Comfortable with ambiguity and independent work in fast-evolving research environment
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time, some roles may require more
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available with reasonable effort on offer, not guaranteed for every role
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