Anthropic · 11 hours ago
Research Engineer / Scientist, Societal Impacts
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$350K/yr - $500K/yrAnthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The Research Engineer / Scientist on the Societal Impacts team will design and build infrastructure for research on AI's effects on society, contributing to publications, policy campaigns, and product improvements.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable technical infrastructure that enables researchers to efficiently run experiments and evaluate AI systems
Architect systems that can handle uncertain and changing requirements while maintaining high standards of reliability
Lead technical design discussions to ensure our infrastructure can support both current needs and future research directions
Partner closely with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and other cross-functional partners to advance Anthropic’s safety mission
Interface with and improve our internal technical infrastructure and tools
Generate net-new insights about the potential societal impact of systems being developed by Anthropic
Ship changes that help improve our models and products based on the empirical research the Societal Impacts team is conducting
Qualification
Required
At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Experience working with Research Scientists on ambiguous AI projects
Experience building and maintaining production-grade internal tools or research infrastructure
Pride in writing clean, well-documented code in Python that others can build upon
Comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information while maintaining high engineering standards
Comfortable getting up-to-speed quickly on unfamiliar codebases, and can work well with other engineers with different backgrounds across the organization
Track record of using technical infrastructure to interface effectively with machine learning models
Experience deriving insights from imperfect data streams
Experience building systems and products on top of LLMs
Experience incubating and maturing tooling platforms used by a wide variety of stakeholders
Preferred
Maintaining large, foundational infrastructure
Building simple interfaces that allow non-technical collaborators to evaluate AI systems
Working with and prioritizing requests from a wide variety of stakeholders, including research and product teams
Distributed systems and can design for scale and reliability
Scaling and optimizing the performance of tools
Product management and/or full-stack product engineering, with a track record of zero-to-one work in startup (or startup-like environments) and owning products end-to-end
Research relating to the societal impacts of technology
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
Founded in 2021
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.74BKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoogleAmazon
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
2025-03-03Series E· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
Co-Founder and CEO
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
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