Anthropic
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)
$300K–$320K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, biophysics, machine learning, computer science, or a related quantitative or biological field, or equivalent industry research experience. Logistics lists a minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Conduct computational biology research and build analysis infrastructure that supports experimental programs, generates testable hypotheses, and helps improve AI tools for scientific discovery.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain biological data analysis pipelines and computational infrastructure.
- Collaborate with experimental biologists to design experiments and rapidly analyze results.
- Use Claude and internal agent frameworks, providing evaluations, datasets, and failure cases to model-improvement and product teams.
What they ask for
- PhD in a relevant quantitative or biological field, or equivalent industry research experience.
- End-to-end computational biology research with evidence of impact, and breadth across multiple areas.
- Proficiency in one or more scientific computing programming languages; comfort with large datasets, Linux, and cloud compute.
- Ability to scope ambiguous biological questions, produce actionable results, and communicate with biologists and ML researchers.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experimental biology or experience designing experiments with experimentalists.
- Experience building tools, pipelines, or agentic systems on top of LLMs, or training models on biological sequence data.
Pay
$300,000–$320,000 USD base salary
Tools
Claude, Linux
AI focus
Use Claude and internal agent frameworks in research, and contribute evaluations, datasets, and failure cases to improve models and products; may build LLM-based tools or train models on biological sequence data.
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