Research Scientist, Life Sciences

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><p>We&39;re seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join our Life Sciences team at Anthropic. Our team is building a world-class research group focused on making Claude a superhuman life sciences research assistant. This role sits at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, and biology — you&39;ll directly improve model capabilities on scientific tasks through post-training, evaluation design, and RL environment development.</p> <p>As a core member of our Life Sciences team, you&39;ll work in a high-impact team that translates deep biological domain knowledge into model training objectives, benchmarks, and agentic workflows. You&39;ll help establish Anthropic as a leader in AI-accelerated biology while shaping how frontier models reason about and execute computational biology tasks.</p> <p>This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how frontier AI models learn to do biology. You&39;ll work alongside some of the world&39;s best AI researchers while tackling problems that matter for human health and scientific understanding. If you&39;re excited about turning your computational biology expertise into model capabilities, we want to hear from you.</p> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Build and ship agentic tools and integrations that let Claude execute real life science workflows — bioinformatics pipelines, database queries, analysis notebooks, literature review</p> </li&