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Applied Scientist, Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

The Discovery team at Anthropic is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist – a system capable of solving the long-term reasoning challenges and basic capabilities necessary to push the scientific and technological frontier. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience with AI or machine learning, whether evaluating and training AI systems or applying these tools in your field
  • Track record of taking work from concept through to a working result, such as a product, process, device, experiment, or tool
  • Hands-on proficiency with the computational design, analysis, or simulation tools used in your field
  • Basic programming proficiency, for example in Python
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and develop solutions in a rapidly evolving research environment
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and to explain your field clearly to people outside it
More about this role

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.

The Discovery team at Anthropic is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist – a system capable of solving the long-term reasoning challenges and basic capabilities necessary to push the scientific and technological frontier.

We're expanding our work on engineering and the applied sciences. Our goal is to contribute to training Claude to invent, design, and engineer across every discipline and scale, reliably and safely: new manufacturing and experimental techniques, processes, materials, devices, instruments, machines, energy systems, and factories. We want this work to accelerate science and technology and benefit people widely.

We're seeking exceptional researchers with deep expertise in one or more of these areas. In this role, you'll work at the intersection of frontier AI and your field, developing rigorous methods to measure and...

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