Research Operations, External Artifacts

Anthropic; Friendly (MD); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a professional for risk report operations, focusing on coordinating contributions and ensuring timely, clear, and accurate reports. The ideal candidate will excel in technical writing, project management, and improving reporting processes.

This role requires a Bachelor’s degree and experience working with large language models. Candidates should be skilled in managing complex projects while collaborating effectively with research teams.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to produce precise and readable prose from jargon-heavy materials.
• Ability to read and analyze evaluation results tables.
• Experience managing complex projects to completion under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own risk report production timeline and contributor coordination.
• Edit content and ensure consistency across reports.
• Guard accuracy against terminology drift and conflicting claims.
• Improve reporting processes through templates and guides.

Skills

Technical writing ability

Knowledge of large language models

Project coordination

Data presentation assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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 researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic publishes risk reports, long‑form technical documents that lay out our assessment of the most serious potential risks from our models in domains such as CBRN, cyber operations, and AI autonomy. These reports detail the evaluation results behind that assessment, the safeguards applied, and the reasoning for why a given model is safe to deploy under our Responsible Scaling Policy. You will own risk report operations, coordinating contributions from dozens of researchers, holding the schedule and open‑thread list, and ensuring the document ships on time as a single, internally consistent whole. You will also do substantive editorial work, turning evaluation results, threat models, and researcher notes into clear prose and pushing back when a safety argument doesn’t hold together. The role also keeps risk reports aligned with related external safety artifacts, such as system cards and Responsible Scaling Policy updates, ensuring consistency across all commitments.

Key responsibilities

• Drive risk report production end to end: own the timeline, the contributor list, and the open‑threads tracker.
• Coordinate core contributors across Frontier Red Team, Safeguards, Alignment, Interpretability, and capabilities research; chase drafts, resolve disagreements, find ground truth, and run the final polish pass.
• Edit (and sometimes write) content; work with researchers and red‑teamers to turn evaluation results, threat models, and plots into clear, non‑marketing prose, and keep Anthropic’s voice consistent across sections drafted by many different people.
• Guard accuracy and consistency: catch terminology drift, risk claims that subtly contradict each other, and gaps between internal findings and what the draft says.
• Keep the risk report aligned with system cards, RSP disclosures, and other safety documentation, flagging conflicts early.
• Improve the process between reports; build templates, style guidance, and contributor checklists so each cycle starts from a stronger baseline.
• Pick up other research‑adjacent operations and writing work related to our external artifacts and Anthropic’s RSP.

Minimum qualifications

• Demonstrated technical writing ability: can take dense, jargon‑heavy source material and produce prose that is precise and readable by a smart non‑specialist.
• Working conceptual knowledge of large language models, with fluency in terms like pretraining, RLHF, context windows, evals, red‑teaming, and capability thresholds.
• Ability to read evaluation results tables, ask clarifying questions, and identify gaps in a technical argument.
• Track record of driving complex, multi‑contributor projects to completion against hard deadlines.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong project coordination instincts; experience managing many parallel open threads across contributors who are juggling other high‑priority work.
• Ability to coordinate and influence without direct authority across research and engineering teams.
• An eye for data presentation; can assess whether a chart or table could be clearer or more accurate.
• Familiarity with AI safety, AI policy, alignment research, national security operations and/or policy, or threat modeling beyond baseline LLM knowledge.
• Experience with safety or compliance documentation: safety cases, risk assessments, security disclosures, or clinical/scientific reporting.
• Background in science communication, research publishing, or technical journalism.
• Track record of shipping long‑form technical documents (research reports, whitepapers, standards, or regulatory filings).
• Experience producing polished, visually consistent documents; an eye for layout and on‑brand presentation.
• Comfort using frontier LLM tools as a productivity aid without substituting them for independent judgment.

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 correlating with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Location‑based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more onsite time.

Visa sponsorship: Anthropic sponsors visas where possible, making every reasonable effort to secure sponsorship for qualified candidates.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $260,000 – $310,000 USD.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.