Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform

Anthropic; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer on the Economic Research Data Platform to design, build, and maintain data infrastructure powering AI economic research. You will work with data systems across Anthropic, including privacy-preserving analytics tools and research workflows.

The role collaborates with Data Science, Data Infrastructure, Societal Impacts, and Public Policy to create scalable pipelines, APIs, and self-serve data access while upholding safety and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience building data processing pipelines and internal tooling.
• Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and Python.
• Strong collaboration with researchers and data scientists.
• Experience in economics or econometrics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the data pipelines that turn raw usage data into clean, reusable, privacy-preserving datasets.
• Design new systems — including classifiers and ML pipelines — to understand Claude usage and economic impact.
• Build self-serve workflows to ingest and integrate external data sources with internal datasets.
• Develop APIs, libraries, and interfaces that serve data to researchers and the public.
• Partner with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and cross-functional teams to advance Anthropic's safety mission.
• Contribute to the team roadmap, documentation, and governance practices for safe data access.
• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and privacy across economic research infrastructure.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

AWS

GCP

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Airflow

SQL

Spark

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 the role

As a Research Engineer on the Economic Research Data Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure that powers Anthropic's research on AI's economic impact. You will work with data systems from across Anthropic, including our research tools for privacy‑preserving analysis.

The Economic Research team is part of the Anthropic Institute, and studies the economic implications of AI on individual, firm, and economy‑wide outcomes. We build scalable systems to monitor AI usage patterns and directly measure the impact of AI adoption on real‑world outcomes. We publish research and data, including the Anthropic Economic Index, for the benefit of the public – helping policymakers, businesses, and workers understand and navigate the transition to powerful AI. The questions we work on include: how is AI changing jobs and economic activity, who is adopting it and why, and what determines whether a region or industry captures value from it.

In this role, you will work closely with teams across Anthropic — including Data Science and Analytics, Data Infrastructure, Societal Impacts, and Public Policy — to build scalable and robust data systems that support high‑leverage, high‑impact research. Strong candidates will have a track record building data processing pipelines, architecting and implementing high‑quality internal infrastructure, working in a fast‑paced environment, and navigating ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate the data pipelines that turn raw usage data into clean, reusable, privacy-preserving datasets

• Design new systems - including developing classifiers, training probes on model internals, and building the ML pipelines behind them — for understanding how Claude is used and the impact it's having on the economy

• Build self‑serve workflows to ingest and integrate external data sources so they're interoperable with internal datasets

• Develop the APIs, libraries, and interfaces that serve data to researchers and the public

• Partner closely with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and other cross‑functional partners to advance Anthropic's safety mission

• Contribute to the team roadmap, documentation, and practices that enable self‑serve data access while maintaining safety and governance standards

• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and privacy compliance across all economic research data infrastructure

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have significant experience building data-intensive applications, pipelines, or internal tooling in production

• Have experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS or GCP, and take pride in writing clean, well‑documented code in Python that others can build upon

• Have intuition for analytics workflows and empathy for how researchers and data scientists work

• Are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information while keeping engineering standards high

• Have a "full‑stack mindset", not hesitating to do what it takes to solve a problem end‑to‑end, even if it requires going outside the original job description

• Have strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with economists, researchers, and cross‑functional partners who may have varying levels of technical expertise

• Care about the societal impacts of your work, and are interested in AI's economic implications

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with modern data transformation, orchestration, and query frameworks

• Building systems and products on top of LLMs

• Privacy‑preserving data systems, or data governance and lineage tooling

• Building and operating web services and the infrastructure underneath them

• Full‑stack development or complex data visualization

• Background in econometrics, statistics, or quantitative social science

• Working in environments where engineers partner closely with quantitative users — research labs, trading firms, analytics companies

Some Examples of Our Recent Work

• Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves

• Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

• Anthropic Economic Index Report: Economic Primitives

• Anthropic Economic Index Report: Uneven Geographic and Enterprise AI Adoption

• Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations

• The Anthropic Economic Index

Deadline to apply: None. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

Annual Salary:

$320,000—$405,000 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:

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:

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.

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.