Anthropic Research Resident

London, UK

Posted£265K to £375K · period not statedfirst seen Oct 29, 2026updated Oct 28, 2026

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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

The Anthropic Residency is our paid, fixed-term research program, with placements lasting between six weeks and six months. We are looking for people who have led ambitious work in a variety of technical fields and want to transition to full-time work focused on making sure AI systems are safe and beneficial for all of humanity. If you are a professor in a quantitative discipline, a technical founder or a staff-level engineer and want to transition to work on transformative AI, we want to hear from you. Background in machine learning is not required.

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What to expect

A concrete, scoped project matched to your background, with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers Access to Claude models and GPU compute Connection to the broader AI safety and security research community

Interview process

The interview process will include an initial application, recruiter screen, technical assessment, research discussion and a reference check. Applications for this round close on November 22, 2026 (11:59 PM PT). We expect to make offers in January 2027.

You may be a good fit if you

Are motivated by making sure AI is safe and beneficial for society as a whole Are excited to transition into working on empirical AI research full-time Have led ambitious work in a variety of technical fields (professor in a quantitative discipline, a technical founder or a staff-level engineer) Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments Can implement ideas quickly and communicate clearly

Potential Anthropic mentors include:

Sara Price : leads the Alignment Training team; background in data science Ethan Perez : leads the Alignment Science team; background in machine learning Evan Hubinger : leads the Alignment Stress-Testing team; formerly at The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) Samuel Marks : leads the Scalable Oversight team; background in mathematics Elana Simon : researches the interpretability of language models and biological models; background in biomedical informatics Belinda Li : researches how language models represent the world, users, and themselves; background in natural language processing (PhD, MIT) Jack Lindsey : leads the Model Psychology team; background in theoretical neuroscience Nicholas Carlini : researches adversarial machine learning and AI security; previously at DeepMind and Google Brain Jascha Sohl-Dickstein : works at the intersection of safety and pretraining; background in physics and neuroscience, formerly Principal Scientist at Google Brain Residents will work on empirical research questions in collaboration with Anthropic's research teams. Areas we are particularly interested in include: AI safety & alignment Scalable Oversight: Developing techniques to keep highly capable models helpful and honest, even as they surpass human-level intelligence in various domains. Adversarial Robustness and AI Control: Creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios. Model Organisms: Creating model organisms of misalignment to improve our empirical understanding of how alignment failures might arise. Model Internals and Interpretability: Advancing our understanding of the internal workings of large language models to enable more targeted interventions and safety measures. Safeguards Research: Developing robust defenses against adversarial attacks, comprehensive evaluation frameworks for model safety, and automated systems to detect and mitigate potential risks before deployment. AI Welfare: Improving our understanding of potential AI welfare and developing related evaluations and mitigations. AI security & frontier red-teaming Stress-testing frontier models to understand the full extent of their current capabilities in fields such as cybersecurity, robotics or cryptography. ML systems & reinforcement learning Improving how frontier models are trained and building the infrastructure behind that research, from model architecture, optimizers and training data to accelerator simulators, hardware backends and RL environment pipelines. For a fuller picture of the questions we care about, see our Recommendations for Technical AI Safety Research Directions and recent publications from our Alignment , Interpretability and Frontier Red teams.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid 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. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

Anthropic Research Resident

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