[P] Research Scientist, Life Sciences

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. They are seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join their Life Sciences team, where the role involves improving AI model capabilities in scientific tasks and translating biological knowledge into actionable objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Build and ship agentic tools and integrations that let Claude execute real life science workflows — bioinformatics pipelines, database queries, analysis notebooks, literature review
• Design and build evaluation benchmarks that measure model capabilities on biology tasks — figure interpretation, bioinformatics, protocol reasoning, literature synthesis
• Work closely with product and design teams to scope, prototype, and ship features for life sciences users
• Partner with external biotech, pharma, and academic users to understand their workflows and turn feedback into product improvements
• Build and maintain the engineering infrastructure behind our biology product surface — tool scaffolding, data pipelines, eval harnesses
• Translate biological domain knowledge into product requirements and evaluation criteria that guide model improvement