Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments — Life Sciences

anthropic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer for Beneficial Deployments, Life Sciences in London. You will work with nonprofits and research partners to design and optimize clinical trials using Claude, enabling faster, safer progress for rare and neglected diseases.

The role combines clinical insight with engineering to repurpose approved medicines and validate evidence for decision-making.

Qualifications

• Hands-on clinical development experience or analysis of clinical evidence.
• Strong engineering skills to turn prototype tools into production code.
• Clear written and verbal communication for external partners and clinicians.
• Ability to work across diverse stakeholders and timelines.
• Comfort handling ambiguity and multi-hat roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, review and prioritise clinical trials with Claude; draft and review protocols and SPAs.
• Build and validate tools to identify new uses for approved medicines in rare diseases.
• Create reusable infrastructure for biomedical data sources and feed learnings back to product/engineering.

Skills

Hands-on clinical development

Engineering skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

LLM tooling

Production code

Evaluation frameworks

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer for Beneficial Deployments, Life Sciences in London. You will work with nonprofits and research partners to design and optimize clinical trials using Claude, enabling faster, safer progress for rare and neglected diseases.

The role combines clinical insight with engineering to repurpose approved medicines and validate evidence for decision-making.