Research Operations Specialist

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

Anthropic publishes risk reports: long-form technical documents laying out our assessment of the most serious potential risks from our models in domains like CBRN, cyber operations, and AI autonomy, along with the evaluation results behind that assessment, the safeguards we've applied, and our reasoning for why a given model is safe to deploy under our Responsible Scaling Policy. Some risk reports are standalone periodic assessments; others are more targeted, produced when we release a specific frontier model. These are some of the most consequential documents we produce, and one of the main ways we hold ourselves publicly accountable for the safety claims we make.

We're hiring a Research Operations Specialist to own risk report operations. You'll be embedded with safety and research teams through each report cycle: coordinating contributions from dozens of researchers, holding the schedule and the open-threads list, and making sure the document ships on time as a single, internally consistent whole. You'll 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.

Risk reports sit within a wider family of external safety artifacts, including system cards and Responsible Scaling Policy updates. Part of this role is keeping those documents consistent with each other so that what we commit to in one place matches what we commit to and deliver on everywhere else.

This role sits in Research Operations and works closely with our Frontier Red Team, Safeguards, Alignment, and capabilities researchers. The job is part project management, part translation: keeping a complex, many-author, hard-deadline document on track while making frontier risk assessment legible to researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public without losing precision.

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, and flag 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

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:

$260,000—$310,000 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.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.