Research Scientist, Societal Impacts
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and interpretable AI systems. The Societal Impacts Research Scientist will analyze real-world usage patterns of AI and evaluate its behavior to ensure safety and alignment with ethical standards, collaborating across multiple teams to translate insights into model improvements.
Responsibilities
- Using observational tools like Clio to analyze real-world usage patterns and surface insights about how people interact with Claude
- Building and running evaluations to assess Claude's behavior across key dimensions of its Constitution, such as safety and quality of advice in high-stakes situations
- Partnering closely with fine-tuning, safeguards, policy, and interpretability teams to translate research insights into model improvements
- Generating insights about the societal impact of Anthropic's systems and using this understanding to inform company strategy, research priorities, and policy positions
- Sharing your work through research publications and external presentations, and developing tools and frameworks that make AI systems more understandable to policymakers, academics, and civil society
Skills
- Experience with machine learning systems
- Genuine interest in societal impacts research
- Adaptable and excited to contribute to evolving team priorities
- Comfortable doing hands-on technical work
- Experience working with technical infrastructure for interfacing with models
- Skilled at writing up and communicating results
- Background in machine learning, data science, or another technical field
- Passionate about translating research insights into actionable recommendations
- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- Prior experience in societal impacts research
- Willingness to help shape research direction for senior candidates
- Interest in management opportunities down the line
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
- We support relocation, but all hires must relocate before starting
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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