Job Description
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The Societal Impacts research scientist will analyze real-world usage patterns of AI and collaborate with various teams to improve model behavior and assess societal impacts.
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
- 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
- At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Prior experience in societal impacts research
- Interest in management opportunities for senior candidates
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship
Apply To This Job