Research Scientist

About AnthropicAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.You may be a good fit if you:(Required) Have at least 1 research project related to machine learning in which you played a major roleStrong candidates may also:Clearly articulate and discuss the motivations behind your work, and teach us about what you've learned.Like writing up and communicating your results, even when they're null.Like working on a team and making collaborative, data-driven research decisions.Believe that a great way to discover a new, big-picture vision is to first get involved in the details.Have experience doing quantitative science in another field.Representative projectsDesign a new method for automatically red teaming language models for harmful behaviorCreate evaluation datasets for potential, new dangerous capabilities of language models such as persuasion or deceptionCompare the compute efficiency of two Transformer variantsCreate an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language modelAnnual SalaryThe expected salary range for this position is $280k - $520k USD.Role-specific policy: For this role, we prefer candidates who are able to be in our office more than 25% of the time, though we encourage you to apply even if you don’t think you will be able to do that.We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.Compensation and Benefits*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 - On top of this position's salary (listed above), 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 - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.401(k) plan with 4% matching.21 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 - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.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, in San Francisco, CA, as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. 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. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.Come work with us!Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based 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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