Anthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The Societal Impacts Research Scientist will analyze AI behavior and improve it through observational tools, collaborating with various teams to ensure safety and quality in AI responses.
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
- Experience working with technical infrastructure for interfacing with models
- Skilled at writing up and communicating results
- Background in machine learning, data science, or another technical field that involves generating insights from complex systems
- Passionate about translating research insights into actionable recommendations for improving AI systems and informing policy
- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- 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
Company Overview
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.anthropic.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Anthropic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 22 in 2026, 105 in 2025, 13 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.