Life Sciences Research Scientist — AI-Driven Biomedicine

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join the Life Sciences team. You will combine deep computational biology expertise with frontier AI capabilities, driving discoveries from large-scale analyses to tests in the lab.

You'll work as one of the first computational members of the Life Sciences group, shaping how computational biology operates at Anthropic while collaborating with leading AI researchers on impactful projects in biomedicine.

Qualifications

• PhD in computational biology or related quantitative field.
• Proven end-to-end computational biology research with impact.
• Breadth across computational biology domains.

Responsibilities

• Build, run, and maintain analysis pipelines for the team’s experiments.
• Collaborate with experimental biologists to design high‑quality experiments.
• Leverage literature and knowledge bases to generate and prioritize hypotheses.
• Maintain the team's computational infrastructure and data interfaces.
• Use Claude and internal agent frameworks in work and provide feedback.
• Tackle multiple projects with breadth and flexibility.

Skills

Computational biology

Programming

Linux data handling

Cloud computing

Scientific communication

Education

PhD in computational biology or related field

Tools

Claude

Internal agent frameworks

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join the Life Sciences team. You will combine deep computational biology expertise with frontier AI capabilities, driving discoveries from large-scale analyses to tests in the lab.

You'll work as one of the first computational members of the Life Sciences group, shaping how computational biology operates at Anthropic while collaborating with leading AI researchers on impactful projects in biomedicine.