Research Scientist, Societal Impacts

• 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.

This role creates positive change by ensuring AI systems are safe and beneficial for society through research that translates insights into model improvements and informs policy positions.

• Experience working with machine learning systems and comfortable with technical infrastructure for interfacing with models.
• Interest in societal impacts research; prior experience in this area is a plus but not required.
• Adaptable and collaborative, able to take direction and contribute to team priorities rather than needing to pursue a predetermined research agenda.
• Skilled at writing up and communicating results, even when they're null or unexpected.

Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space for collaboration.

Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.