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anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · posted today
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.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, and we believe AI will have a vast impact on the world — our goal is to ensure that impact is positive.
Anthropic is compute-constrained, and how we allocate that compute is one of the highest-leverage decisions we make as a company. Today, allocation choices are only loosely tied to the user outcomes we ultimately care about — retention, lifetime value, and the experience of people relying on Claude. This role exists to change that by addressing two intertwined problems at the heart of how we allocate compute.
The first is an allocation problem: matching a volatile, heterogeneous stream of demand to a finite, heterogeneous fleet of chips. Which models run on which hardware, in which regions, under what serving configurations — with demand shifting and capacity bounded — is a problem the team navigates continuously today, with more intuition than rigor. You will bring structure to it: building the metrics and analytical frameworks that make the trade-offs legible, and partnering with the infrastructure teams that own these systems to turn that understanding into better decisions.
The second is a causal-inference problem: there are many levers — rate limits, pricing, cache behavior, capacity shifts, routing changes — and only a partial picture of what pulling each one actually does to the users on the other end. You will build the causal understanding that closes that gap, choosing whatever approach the question calls for, so allocation decisions are made on expected user impact rather than intuition.
This role is a fit for someone who thinks natively in terms of constrained allocation and queueing, who treats "what would happen if we changed X" as an identification problem rather than a dashboard query, and who wants their work to translate into operational and productionized change. You will work closely with the infrastructure engineers who run our compute, and your findings will be presented to senior leadership.
Anthropic is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable law (e.g., the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$285,000—$460,000 USD
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 experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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 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.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
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 collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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