Research Engineer, Societal Impacts
4 weeks ago
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the RoleAs a Research Engineer on the Societal Impacts team, you'll design and build critical infrastructure that enables and accelerates foundational research into how our AI systems impact people and society. Your work will directly contribute to our research publications, policy campaigns, safety systems, and products.
Strong candidates will have a track record of running & designing experiments relating to machine learning systems, building data processing pipelines, architecting & implementing high-quality internal infrastructure, working in a fast-paced startup environment, and demonstrating an eagerness to develop their own research & technical skills. The ideal candidate will enjoy a mixture of running experiments, developing new tools & evaluation suites, working cross-functionally across multiple research and product teams, and striving for beneficial & safe uses for AI.
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
- Translate insights to inform Anthropic strategy, research, and public policy
- Have experience building and maintaining production-grade internal tools or research infrastructure
- Take pride in writing clean, well-documented code in Python that others can build upon
- Are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information while maintaining high engineering standards
- Have experience with distributed systems and can design for scale and reliability
- Have a track record of using technical infrastructure to interface effectively with machine learning models
- Have experience deriving insights from imperfect data streams
- 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
- Scaling and optimizing the performance of tools
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure for running large-scale experiments on how people interact with our AI systems
- Build robust monitoring systems that help us detect and understand potential misuse or unexpected behaviors
- Create internal tools that help researchers, policy experts, and product teams quickly analyze dynamically changing AI system characteristics
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
LogisticsLocation-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
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.
Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Employees*
Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits for Full-Time Employees - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits for Full-Time Employees - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
How we're differentWe believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with usAnthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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