Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety

Anthropic
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 300,000 - 320,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Writing","Collaboration"]

Research-focused role designing and evaluating safety systems for next-generation AI biology applications, collaborating across research, policy, and engineering to prevent misuse while advancing biosafety in frontier AI models.

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Anthropic
7 months ago

Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety

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Job Summary

Research-focused role designing and evaluating safety systems for next-generation AI biology applications, collaborating across research, policy, and engineering to prevent misuse while advancing biosafety in frontier AI models.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and execute capability evaluations ("evals") to assess the capabilities of new models
  • •Collaborate with internal and external threat modeling experts to develop training data for safety systems, and with ML engineers to train these safety systems
  • •Analyze safety system performance in traffic, identifying gaps and proposing improvements
  • •Develop rigorous stress-testing of safeguards against evolving threats and product surfaces
  • •Partner with Research, Product, and Policy teams to ensure biological safety is embedded throughout the model development lifecycle

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 320,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •A PhD in molecular biology, virology, microbiology, biochemistry, systems or computational biology, or a related life sciences field, OR equivalent professional experience
  • •Extensive experience in scientific computing and data analysis, with proficiency in programming (Python preferred)
  • •Deep expertise in modern biology, including both reading (high-throughput measurement, functional assays) and writing (gene synthesis, genome editing, strain construction, protein engineering) techniques
  • •Familiarity with dual-use research concerns, select agent regulations, and biosecurity frameworks (e.g., Biological Weapons Convention, Australia Group guidelines)
  • •Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Experience:Biological safetyBiosecurityAI safety
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationWritingCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Python

Company Brief

Anthropic
Develops large-scale AI systems and safety research to create reliable, steerable, and interpretable AI assistants and models for commercial and research applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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