Anthropic Fellows Program — AI Safety

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Shared workspace in Berkeley or London

Weekly stipend + benefits

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Zusammenfassung

The Anthropic Fellows Program offers a four-month, full-time research opportunity designed to advance AI safety and empirical ML. Fellows receive direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers and access to shared workspaces in Berkeley or London, with a weekly stipend and compute funding.

Applicants should have a strong technical background in CS, mathematics, or physics, fluency in Python, and a track record in empirical ML research. Visa/work authorization support is available where applicable.

Qualifikationen

• Fluent in Python programming.
• Available to work full-time on the Fellows program.
• Strong technical background in CS, mathematics, or physics.
• Experience with empirical ML research is desirable.

Aufgaben

• Conduct empirical ML research within a Fellows workstream.
• Collaborate with mentors and other fellows on project milestones.
• Contribute to safety-focused AI research initiatives and publications.

Kenntnisse

Fluent Python

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

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.

This page is specific to one of the Anthropic Fellows Workstreams, see also the main Anthropic Fellows posting.

Anthropic Fellows Program overview

The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to foster AI research and engineering talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent - regardless of previous experience.

What to expect

• 4 months of full-time research
• Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers
• Access to a shared workspace (in either Berkeley, California or London, UK)
• Connection to the broader AI safety and security research community
• Weekly stipend of 3,850 USD / 2,310 GBP / 4,300 CAD + benefits (these vary by country)
• Funding for compute (~$15k/month) and other research expenses

Interview process

The interview process will include an initial application & reference check, technical assessments & interviews, and a research discussion.

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.

Compensation

The expected base stipend for this role is 3,850 USD / 2,310 GBP / 4,300 CAD per week, with an expectation of 40 hours per week for 4 months (with possible extension).

Fellows workstreams

• AI Safety Fellows
• AI Security Fellows
• ML Systems & Performance Fellows
• Reinforcement Learning Fellows
• Economics & Societal Impacts Fellows

Across the workstreams, 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 empirical AI research and would be interested in a full-time role at Anthropic
• Have a strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics
• Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments
• Can implement ideas quickly and communicate clearly

Strong candidates may also have:

• Strong background in a discipline relevant to a specific Fellows workstream (e.g. economics, social sciences, or cybersecurity)
• Experience in areas of research or engineering related to their workstream

Candidates must be:

• Fluent in Python programming
• Available to work full-time on the Fellows program

AI Safety Fellows

Mentors, research areas, & past projects

Fellows will undergo a project selection & mentor matching process. Potential mentors include:

• Sam Bowman
• Sara Price
• Alex Tamkin
• Nina Panickssery
• Trenton Bricken
• Logan Graham
• Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
• Joe Benton
• Collin Burns
• Fabien Roger
• Samuel Marks
• Kyle Fish
• Ethan Perez

Our mentors will lead projects in select AI safety research areas, such as:

• 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 / Mechanistic Interpretability: Advancing our understanding of the internal workings of large language models to enable more targeted interventions and safety measures.
• AI Welfare: Improving our understanding of potential AI welfare and developing related evaluations and mitigations.

On our Alignment Science and Frontier Red Team blogs, you can read about past projects, including:

• Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data: Alex Cloud and Minh Le, et al., mentors including Samuel Marks and Owain Evans

For a full list of representative projects for each area, please see these blog posts: Introducing the Anthropic Fellows Program for AI Safety Research, Recommendations for Technical AI Safety Research Directions.

Unique candidate criteria

• Are motivated by reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems
• Have experience with empirical ML research projects
• Have experience working with large language models
• Have experience in one of the research areas mentioned above
• Have a track record of open-source contributions

Logistics

Logistics Requirements: To participate in the Fellows program, you must have work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada and be located in that country during the program.

Workspace Locations

We have designated shared workspaces in London and Berkeley where fellows will work from and mentors will visit. We are also open to remote fellows in the UK, US, or Canada. We will ask you about your availability to work from Berkeley or London (full- or part-time) during the program.

Visa Sponsorship

We are not currently able to sponsor visas for fellows. To participate in the Fellows program, you need to have or independently obtain full-time work authorization in the UK, the US, or Canada.

Program Duration

The program runs for 4 months, full-time. If you can't commit to the full duration, please still apply and note your constraints in the application. We review these requests on a case-by-case basis.

Please note: We do not guarantee that we will make any full-time offers to fellows. However, strong performance during the program may indicate that a Fellow would be a good fit for full-time roles at Anthropic. In previous cohorts, 25-50% of fellows received a full-time offer, and we’ve supported many more to go on to do great work on AI safety and security at other organizations.

The below are Anthropic's policies for full time roles. These do NOT apply to the Fellows Program

• 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 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.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.