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Research Scientist, Life Sciences

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,

Company

Anthropic

Location

San Francisco, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-02T22:08:52+00:00

Anthropic's Life Sciences team is hiring a research scientist to improve Claude on biology tasks. The work covers post-training, evaluation benchmark design and RL environment development, plus agentic tools and data pipelines that let the model run bioinformatics, database queries and literature review. The posting asks for computational biology or bioinformatics experience, production-quality Python, hands-on model training or fine-tuning, and a record of shipping tools biologists use. A Ph.D., 5+ years and drug-discovery experience are preferred. Pay is listed at $300,000–$320,000.