Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety
Anthropic · Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $300K–$405K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 9 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About Anthropic
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…
About the role
We are looking for research engineers to build the safety and oversight mechanisms that govern how our models handle biological knowledge. As a bio safety researcher, you will spend your time: designing and running capability evaluations against frontier…
Key responsibilities
Design, build, and run capability evaluations to assess what new models can do in the biological domain, and turn results into concrete deployment recommendations Develop training and evaluation datasets for our safety classifiers, working with internal and…
Minimum qualifications
Strong proficiency in Python, and extensive background in scientific programming and data analysis skills Excellent grasp of ML fundamentals and an ability to rapidly adopt ML development practices Excellent knowledge of modern biology across both measurement…
Preferred qualifications
Experience working with large language models, including prompting, fine-tuning, or evaluation Experience training or deploying classifiers or other ML systems in production Experience developing ML methods for biological systems or biological data…
Logistics
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…
Logistics
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How we're different
We 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…
Come work with us!
Anthropic 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…
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