About the Position

Data Scientist, Safeguards

New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA

About Anthropic

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 the Role

As an early member of our Safeguards Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by building and scaling a data-driven culture from the ground up. In this unique company, technology, and moment in history, your work will be critical to informing our product and commercial strategy as we deploy safe, frontier AI at scale to the world.

You will work closely with product, engineering, policy & enforcement to define and measure key company success metrics, analyze user behavior to identify new enforcement opportunities, and build a culture of developing and testing hypotheses through experimentation. You’ve worked in cultures of excellence in the past, and are eager to apply that experience to building robust and scalable systems and processes as our company goes through a phase of rapid growth.

Responsibilities

Deep dive into user behavior data to provide insights on safety concerns
Define core metrics that measure the team's success. Set goals, build forecasts, monitor performance, and develop actionable reporting
Identify and size opportunities to improve the product, influencing product roadmap through your insights and recommendations
Develop hypotheses on product changes, design controlled experiments, analyze the results, and make recommendations based on impact to key metrics
Build a data-driven culture from the ground up by establishing foundational data best practices and making data more accessible across the company

Requirements

Minimum qualifications
- Expertise in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools.
- A bias for action and urgency, not letting perfect be the enemy of the effective.
- A strong disposition to thrive in ambiguity, taking initiative to create clarity and forward progress.
- A deep curiosity and energy for pulling the thread on hard questions.
- Experience in turning open questions and data into concise and insightful analysis.
- Highly effective written communication and presentation skills.
- A passion for the company's mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI.
Preferred qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in data science or analytics roles, preferably in an infrastructure or operations context.
- 3+ years of experience deeply embedding in Product teams.
- Experience working on safety, anti-abuse, integrity-shaped problems.

We Offer

Competitive compensation range: $285,000-$380,000 USD annually
Hybrid work location 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.
Comprehensive benefits package including optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.
A lovely office space in San Francisco to collaborate with colleagues.

About the Company

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.

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!

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Data Scientist, Safeguards

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