Data Scientist, Supply

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

Anthropic is compute-constrained, and how we allocate that compute is one of the highest-leverage decisions we make as a company. Today, those allocation choices are only loosely tied to the user outcomes we ultimately care about - retention, lifetime value, and the experience of people relying on Claude. You will change that.

As a hands-on technical IC on the Supply pillar of our Data Science & Analytics team, you'll sit alongside the infrastructure engineers who run our compute and help decide how our scarcest resource gets used. You'll design and run the analyses, observational and synthetic experiments, and optimization frameworks that turn opaque supply decisions into shared, measurable understanding across the company. Your work will directly shape how frontier AI reaches the world at scale, and your findings will go in front of senior leadership, including our CTO and his staff.

This role is a fit for someone who thinks natively in terms of constrained allocation and queueing, who enjoys getting close to the system rather than analyzing it from a distance, and who wants their analyses to translate into operational changes that ship.
Responsibilities:

• Build and run testing frameworks - observational and synthetic - to quantify how different inputs affect compute allocation outcomes
• Connect compute allocation decisions to downstream user outcomes (retention, LTV, revenue) so we stop optimizing in a vacuum
• Partner closely with infrastructure engineers, product, and research to instrument the system, measure what matters, and ship operational changes
• Develop the metric hierarchies, dashboards, and reporting that turn supply decisions into shared understanding across the company
• Contribute analyses and recommendations to executive forums, and co-author the supply narrative the team takes to the CTO and his staff
• Measure and improve how AI affects developer productivity inside Anthropic

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Strong technical IC background in data science, analytics, or operations research
• Operations research foundation - you think natively in terms of optimization, constrained allocation, and queueing
• Deep proficiency with Python, SQL, and data visualization tools
• Track record of owning analyses end-to-end and communicating results clearly to engineering and product leadership
• Direct experience working closely with engineering teams on production systems
• A passion for Anthropic's mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI

Strong candidates may have:

• 6+ years of technical IC experience in data science, analytics, or operations research; 8+ years for candidates targeting a Staff-level scope
• Experience with highly complex systems with many interacting components (ad networks, payment processing, marketplace matching, routing, etc.)
• Experience with causal inference methods applied to operational decisions (synthetic controls, geo-experiments, switchbacks)
• Experience contributing to or designing experimentation platforms, not just using them
• Exposure to AI/ML products, large language models, or large-scale inference systems
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple workstreams or mentoring senior ICs without formal management responsibility

Deadline to apply: None. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.


For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$275,000-$370,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

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

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! 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 encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.