Research Manager, Anthropic
Tokens
$425-560k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
AI safety and research company
Be an early applicant
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$425-560k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 3-5 years of management experience in a research/technical environment
- We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Have a strong background in machine learning/AI with a focus on research
- Are comfortable with an empirical and fast-paced research environment
- Are a quick learner, capable of understanding and contributing to discussions on complex technical topics, and communicating research findings effectively
- Have demonstrated experience leading high-performing teams of researchers
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
- Areas of interest:
- Fundamental Pretraining science
- Reasoning and complex problem solving
- Novel data sources, quality metrics, and effectiveness
- Multilingual data
What the job involves
- As a Research Manager on Anthropic's Pretraining Data team (Tokens), you will lead a team of researchers and research engineers who are responsible for understanding and innovating on the data that powers our foundational AI models.
- Areas of work include pretraining data research such as understanding data trends and scaling laws, optimizing pretraining data mixes, investigating and evaluating potential new data sources, and researching methodologies to process and utilize the data most effectively
- Lead research and engineering efforts on pretraining data optimization
- Prioritize the team's research agenda to support fast iteration on promising research avenues with a focus on impact
- Become familiar with the team's technical stack enough to make targeted contributions as an individual contributor
- Manage day-to-day execution of the team's work
- Coach and support your reports in their professional growth
- Maintain a deep understanding of the team's work and its implications for AI safety
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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Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2025
$3.5bn
SERIES E
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $16.3bn
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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