Research 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 class="heading"><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>As a Societal Impacts research scientist on the Models Research Pod, you'll close the loop between observing Claude's behavior and improving it at the model level. You'll use observational tools like Clio to analyze real-world usage patterns and build evaluations that&nbsp; assess whether Claude provides safe responses aligned with its <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution">Constitution</a>.</p> <p>Strong candidates will have experience with machine learning systems and a genuine interest in societal impacts research. You should be adaptable and excited to contribute to evolving team priorities rather than coming in with a fixed agenda. The role is highly cross-functional, with regular collaboration across the fine-tuning, safeguards, policy, and interpretability teams.</p> <p>We're hiring at both junior and senior levels. Senior researchers should be comfortable doing hands-on technical work alongside helping set research direction.</p> <p><em>For this role, we are open to a 6-month residency at Anthropic with the expectation that residents convert to full-time if they do well in their residency.&nbsp;</em><em>We are exclusively hiring in SF. We support relocation, but all hires must relocate before starting.</em></p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Using observational tools like Clio to analyze real-world usage patterns and surface insights about how people interact with Claude.</li> <li>Building and running evaluations to assess Claude's behavior acr