Anthropic Research Resident (Anthropic Residency), London

The Anthropic Residency is a paid, fixed-term research programme for experienced people who want to move into full-time work on making AI safe and beneficial. Placements last six weeks, three months or six months. You do not need a machine learning background. It is aimed at people who have led ambitious technical work, such as professors in a quantitative discipline, technical founders or staff-level engineers. You would work on a concrete, scoped empirical project matched to your background, with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers, plus access to Claude models and GPU compute. Research areas include scalable oversight, interpretability, adversarial robustness, model organisms, AI welfare, AI security and ML systems. Pay is £265,000 to £375,000 a year, pro-rated for the length of your placement, plus benefits. This application is for a remote UK position with the option to work from the London office. Anthropic sponsors visas for placements of three months or longer. Remote participants must be based in a country where Anthropic can hire. Applications close on 22 November 2026 (11:59 PM PT), with offers expected in January 2027. To apply, submit the online form with your CV or LinkedIn profile, links to your best work, 2-3 references and short answers on why Anthropic and what research you would like to do. Then expect a recruiter screen, a technical assessment and a research discussion.