Data Scientist, Supply

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a data‑driven, technically adept professional to optimize compute allocation across a heterogeneous hardware fleet. You will build metrics and analytical frameworks to illuminate tradeoffs and partner with infrastructure teams to translate insights into production changes.

You will address causal‑inference challenges around rate limits, pricing, and routing, aiming to link actions to user outcomes and present findings to senior leadership for strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong technical individual-contributor background in data science, analytics, or operations research.
• Fluent in causal inference and identifying effects, not just measuring them.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools.
• Experience with production systems and collaborating with engineering teams.
• Alignment with Anthropic’s mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and run testing frameworks to quantify how inputs affect compute allocation outcomes.
• Link compute allocation decisions to downstream user outcomes (retention, value, revenue).
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and research to instrument systems and ship changes.
• Develop metric hierarchies, dashboards, and reporting for supply decisions.
• Present analyses to executive forums and co-author the supply narrative with CTO.

Skills

Data science

Analytics

Operations research

Python

SQL

Data visualization

Production systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LP/MILP

Queueing theory

RL-based control

Job description

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 Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, and we believe AI will have a vast impact on the world — our goal is to ensure that impact is positive.

About the role

Anthropic is compute‑constrained, and how we allocate that compute is one of the highest‑leverage decisions we make as a company. Today, allocation choices are only loosely tied to the user outcomes we ultimately care about — retention, lifetime value, and the experience of people relying on Claude. This role exists to change that by addressing two intertwined problems at the heart of how we allocate compute.

The first is an allocation problem: matching a volatile, heterogeneous stream of demand to a finite, heterogeneous fleet of chips. Which models run on which hardware, in which regions, under what serving configurations — with demand shifting and capacity bounded — is a problem the team navigates continuously today, with more intuition than rigor. You will bring structure to it: building the metrics and analytical frameworks that make the trade‑offs legible, and partnering with the infrastructure teams that own these systems to turn that understanding into better decisions.

The second is a causal‑inference problem: there are many levers — rate limits, pricing, cache behavior, capacity shifts, routing changes — and only a partial picture of what pulling each one actually does to the users on the other end. You will build the causal understanding that closes that gap, choosing whatever approach the question calls for, so allocation decisions are made on expected user impact rather than intuition.

This role is a fit for someone who thinks natively in terms of constrained allocation and queueing, who treats “what would happen if we changed X” as an identification problem rather than a dashboard query, and who wants their work to translate into operational and productionized change. You will work closely with the infrastructure engineers who run our compute, and your findings will be presented to senior leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Build and run testing frameworks — observational and synthetic — to quantify how different inputs affect compute allocation outcomes
• Connect compute allocation decisions to downstream user outcomes (retention, lifetime value, revenue)
• Partner closely with infrastructure engineers, product, and research to instrument systems, measure what matters, and ship operational changes
• Develop the metric hierarchies, dashboards, and reporting that turn supply decisions into shared understanding across the company
• Contribute analyses and recommendations to executive forums, and co‑author the supply narrative shared with the CTO and staff

Minimum qualifications

• Strong technical individual‑contributor background in data science, analytics, or operations research
• Demonstrated comfort reasoning about resource allocation and trade‑offs under constraints — drawn to systems problems, not just dashboards
• Working fluency with causal inference — able to recognize when an effect needs to be identified, not just measured, and to choose an appropriate design
• Deep proficiency with Python, SQL, and data visualization tools
• Track record of owning analyses end‑to‑end and communicating results clearly to engineering and product leadership
• Direct experience working closely with engineering teams on production systems
• Alignment with Anthropic’s mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on data science experience
• Significant technical individual‑contributor experience in data science, analytics, or operations research at staff level scope
• Experience with highly complex systems with many interacting components (ad networks, payment processing, marketplace matching, routing, etc.)
• Hands‑on operations‑research depth: experience formulating and shipping real‑time constrained‑allocation, routing, or scheduling problems in production (LP/MILP, queueing, or RL‑based control), with the ability to defend modeling choices
• Causal‑inference depth beyond off‑the‑shelf quasi‑experimental templates — particularly methods for recovering long‑term impact from short‑horizon data: surrogate/proxy‑outcome models, off‑policy evaluation and counterfactual policy learning, or structural approaches, built rather than merely run
• Experience contributing to or designing experimentation platforms, not just using them
• Exposure to AI/ML products, large language models, or large‑scale inference systems
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple workstreams or mentoring senior individual contributors without formal management responsibility

Equal Opportunity

Anthropic is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable law (e.g., the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $285,000 — $460,000 USD

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.

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.