Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences)
About The Position
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Beneficial Deployments team ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most by partnering with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in various sectors, including life sciences. This role focuses on maximizing Claude's impact in life sciences to accelerate scientific progress. The Applied AI Engineer will work directly with flagship research partners, embedding in their scientific workflows, prototyping agents, and developing ecosystem-level tooling. This is a founding role on the Beneficial Deployments Applied AI team for life sciences.
Requirements
- Deep research experience in life sciences, biomedical research, or scientific computing.
- Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
- Production code shipping experience as a software engineer, forward-deployed engineer, or technical founder.
- A scrappy mentality, comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and doing whatever it takes to further the mission.
Nice To Haves
- Studied genomics, neuroscience, or drug discovery specifically.
- Comfortable getting deeply technical with academics.
Responsibilities
- Partner deeply with flagship life sciences research institutions to understand their scientific workflows, build with their engineering teams, and integrate projects into their daily scientific practices.
- Develop reusable ecosystem infrastructure, including MCP servers for domain-specific data sources, instruments, scientifically-grounded benchmarks, and agent skills for broader adoption.
- Identify and address challenges in deploying AI in life sciences, such as heterogeneous data, auditability requirements, and the prototype-to-trust gap, and communicate these findings to product, engineering, and research teams.
- Create technical content and documentation to enable partners to self-serve and scale solutions globally.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Visa sponsorship
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
