PMs for Hire

Research Engineer, Rule of Law

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

H1B sponsorship available$320k-$485kDetected 27 days ago

Deep LearningData AnalysisData ScienceNLPLLMsAgentic AIStatisticsLogisticsMechanical DesignResearchExperimental DesignCommunication

About the role

Increasingly powerful AI systems will challenge societal functions at all levels.
Anthropic has done pioneering work examining the economic impacts of AI
the Rule of Law Team takes an analogous approach to a different question: how will AI impact our constitutional democratic institutions?

Design and run AI safety evaluations focused on legal alignment, and conduct technical work (including fine-tuning) to improve targeted aspects of model performance
Leverage AI to analyze institutional vulnerabilities created or exacerbated by AI itself, and develop accompanying sociotechnical mitigations
Develop novel applications of AI to bolster and enrich democratic processes
Conduct rigorous sociotechnical studies on how information furnished by AI can support informed deliberation and debate
Partner closely with researchers, policy and law experts, and other cross-functional teams across Anthropic to advance our safety mission
Deeply understand experimental design, data analysis and inferential statistics
Are energized by working at the intersection of technical research and questions of democracy and institutional design

Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Have deep expertise in AI together with substantive expertise in government, law, political science, or public policy
Have at least five years of work experience in academia, industry, or government
Are comfortable navigating the ambiguity inherent to novel research, including settings where the objective itself is hard to define

$320,000 - $485,000 USD
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
However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
AI safety evaluations focusing on legal alignment, with technical work to improve targeted aspects of model performance
Analysis of institutional vulnerabilities, with accompanying work toward technical mitigations

Have advanced skills in deep learning, together with capabilities in data science, mechanism design, govtech, deliberative tech, or a related field
Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

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 do sponsor visas!

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