Research Scientist, Anthropic
Frontier Red Team, Autonomy
$280-340k
+ Optional equity donation matching
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
AI safety and research company
Be an early applicant
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$280-340k
+ Optional equity donation matching
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- If you’ve thought particularly hard about how models might be agentic and associated risks, and you’ve built an eval or experiment around it, we’d like to meet you
- If you would be interested in people management, you may express interest in the application
- Have an ML background and experience leading experimental research on LLMs/multimodal models and/or agents
- Have strong Python-based engineering skills
- Are driven to find solutions to ambiguously scoped problems
- Design and run experiments and iterate quickly to solve machine learning problems
- Thrive in a collaborative environment (we love pair programming)
- Have experience training, working with, and prompting models
What the job involves
- We are looking for Research Scientists to develop and productionize advanced autonomy evaluations on our Frontier Red Team
- Our goal is to develop and implement a gold standard of advanced autonomy evals to determine the AI Safety Level (ASL) of our models
- This will have major implications for the way we train, deploy, and secure our models, as detailed in our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP)
- We believe that developing autonomy evals is one of the best ways to study increasingly capable and agentic models
- We’re still iterating on the structure of our team. It is possible that this role might end up being the people manager of a few other individual contributors (ICs)
- Lead the end-to-end development of autonomy evals and research. This starts with risk and capability modeling, and includes designing, implementing, and regularly running these evals
- Quickly iterate on experiments to evaluate autonomous capabilities and forecast future capabilities
- Provide technical leadership to Research Engineers to scope + build scalable and secure infrastructure to quickly run large-scale experiments
- Communicate the outcomes of the evaluations to relevant Anthropic teams, as well as policy stakeholders and research collaborators, where relevant
- Collaborate with other projects on the Frontier Red Team, Alignment, and beyond to improve infrastructure and design safety techniques for autonomous capabilities
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $12.8bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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