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.
About Beneficial Deployments
Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences — focusing on raising the floor for those who need it most.
About the Role
We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments, Life Sciences team, focused on using Claude to speed up protein and small-molecule design. You'll work with research partners to apply modern design and structure models to real discovery problems, and build the agents and skills that turn those tools into end-to-end workflows. This role is about applying design models, not building new ones.
Responsibilities
Work with research partners on protein and molecular design end-to-end with Claude, from advising, to prototyping, to writing production code.
Work in a design–make–test loop with wet-lab partners (e.g. antibody-repertoire mining, MD prep / trajectory analysis at proteome scale) and turn the expert steps into reusable agents/skills.
Build agents and skills that wrap design and structure tools into end-to-end workflows.
Support research efforts aimed at better understanding the protein sequence-to-function relationship
Help partners measure where AI speeds up their design cycles, and where it doesn't.
Drive product, engineering and research direction from field experience, e.g. benchmarks and evals for design and structure tasks (capabilities and safety).
Scale your impact to the long tail of labs through reusable skills, cookbooks and docs.
Be an ambassador for Claude in molecular design, from small settings to large conferences.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have
Hands-on experience applying protein or small-molecule design to real drug development programs, in an AI-first biotech, pharma, a rare-disease non-profit, a research institute, or a translational academic design lab.
Experience with molecular dynamics (system prep, trajectory analysis) or large-scale antibody/immune-repertoire data, and with closing the loop against experimental results from a partner lab.
Hands-on use of modern design and structure tools (e.g. AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, Rosetta) to solve design problems, not only to build new models.
Strong engineering skills: you can take an LLM-powered tool from prototype to production code, and write evals to measure its performance.
Deep understanding on how to quantitatively measure success in drug design, experimentally and computationally.
A scientist's instinct for understanding how AI can, and cannot, facilitate protein research and design
Experience working directly with external customers or partners in a technical role.
Clear written and verbal communication: docs partners can use without you, and talks that earn researchers' trust.
A scrappy mentality: comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and doing whatever it takes to further the mission.
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
$280,000—$320,000 USD
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 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.
For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
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.
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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 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.
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 collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.