Research Engineer / Scientist, Societal Impacts

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a Research Engineer / Scientist on the Societal Impacts team, you'll design and build critical infrastructure that enables and accelerates foundational research into how our AI systems impact people and society. Your work will directly contribute to our research publications, policy campaigns, safety systems, and products.<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fa8GDWvbOE3HISHGda-thXgIEnaWmae9mMLHrxKgQWs/edit?usp=sharing">&nbsp;</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts">Our team</a> combines rigorous empirical methods with creative technical approaches. We’re currently grappling with big questions on how AI might impact the <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic">future of work</a>, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship">people's wellbeing</a>, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude">education</a>, and more. Additionally, we are continuously studying socio-technical alignment (what <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/values-wild">values</a> do our systems have?), and evaluating novel AI capabilities as they arise. We develop <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio">privacy-preserving tools</a> to measure AI's effects at scale, conduct mixed-methods studies of human-AI interaction, and translate research insights into actionable recommendations for both product and policy. You can learn more about our