Recruiter, Mergers & Acquisitions

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 Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We believe AI has the potential to fundamentally change how the world works, and we're focused on building systems that are safe and beneficial.

About the Role

Anthropic has an ambitious mission with high stakes and tight timelines. In some cases, the talent we need to achieve our vision can't be accessed through traditional recruiting alone. That's where M&A comes in.

We're looking for an M&A Recruiter to join our Talent team and serve as a critical bridge between Corporate Development and the technical organization. This role partners closely with Corporate Development, Technical Leadership, Product, Research, Engineering, and People to source, assess, and integrate world-class technical talent. Your work will be challenging and unique, supporting Anthropic's efforts to remain on the frontier.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Corporate Development and Technical Leadership to evaluate M&A targets, focusing on talent quality, cultural alignment, and strategic fit


• Build relationships with founders, technical leaders, and key engineers at target companies


• Develop deep expertise in the technical talent landscape across our priority areas and lead technical talent assessments for potential acquisitions


• Own recruiting and partner to ensure an amazing onboarding experience for technical talent joining through acquisitions


• Collaborate with People, Legal, and Corp Dev to structure competitive offers that reflect both standard compensation and appropriate recognition for founders' prior work


• Maintain confidentiality and navigate sensitive conversations with discretion

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of technical recruiting experience, with at least 3 years supporting corporate development, M&A, or acquihire processes and familiarity using modern recruiting systems


• Track record of hiring engineers, research scientists, and technical leaders in highly competitive markets


• Strong understanding of what makes technical teams exceptional—and the judgment to assess whether a team meets Anthropic's high bar


• Experience navigating complex, sensitive hiring situations where discretion and trust-building are essential


• Ability to partner effectively across Corp Dev, Legal, People, and technical leadership


• Clear, direct communication style and a bias toward action


• Genuine interest in Anthropic's mission and the role M&A plays in supporting it

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting at a high-growth AI or machine learning company


• Experience with founder recruiting or executive search in technical domains

Compensation & Benefits

Anthropic's compensation package includes competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, generous parental leave, flexible PTO, and a 401(k) plan.

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:

$240,000 - $295,000 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 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.