Alignment Science Research Engineer | Flexible Hours

Anthropic Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 260,000 - 370,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer on Alignment Science to design and run thoughtful machine learning experiments that help us understand and steer high‑risk AI behavior. You’ll operate as both a scientist and an engineer, contributing to exploratory research in alignment with safety goals.

You will collaborate with teams across Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and the Frontier Red Team, and participate in projects that advance Responsible Scaling and model safety.

Qualifications

• Significant software, ML, or research engineering experience.
• Some experience contributing to empirical AI research projects.
• Familiarity with technical AI safety research

Responsibilities

• Run exploratory experiments to understand and steer the behavior of AI systems.
• Collaborate with Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and Frontier Red Team teams.
• Contribute ideas, figures, and writing to research papers, blog posts, and talks.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Research engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer on Alignment Science to design and run thoughtful machine learning experiments that help us understand and steer high‑risk AI behavior. You’ll operate as both a scientist and an engineer, contributing to exploratory research in alignment with safety goals.

You will collaborate with teams across Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and the Frontier Red Team, and participate in projects that advance Responsible Scaling and model safety.