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# Research Scientist, Life Sciences at Anthropic

Department: AI Research & Engineering

Compensation

$300,000 – $320,000/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: San Francisco, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Jun 2, 2026

## Description

Anthropic is hiring a Research Scientist for its Life Sciences team to improve frontier AI models on scientific tasks through post-training, evaluation design, and RL environment development. The role combines machine learning, software engineering, and biology to build agentic tools, life-science workflows, benchmarks, product features, and engineering infrastructure for computational biology, drug discovery, and related domains. Candidates need experience applying ML and software engineering to biological problems, training or fine-tuning models, and shipping computational tools; the role offers a $300,000–$320,000 USD annual salary, hybrid office attendance, and visa sponsorship.

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