Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join the team. This role combines deep computational biology expertise with frontier AI capabilities, positioning Anthropic at the forefront of AI-driven scientific discovery.

• Build, run, and maintain the analysis pipelines that back the team's experimental programs: sequence analysis at petabyte scale, structural bioinformatics, phylogenetic and…
• Partner directly with experimental biologists to design experiments that produce high-quality data, and turn results around fast enough to immediately inform the next experiment
• Draw on the literature and curated biological knowledge bases alongside primary data to generate and prioritize hypotheses for experimental follow-up
• Stand up and maintain the team's computational infrastructure: data ingestion, workflow orchestration, internal databases, and the interfaces that make all of it accessible to…
• Use Claude and our internal agent frameworks heavily in your own work, and feed what you learn back to the model-improvement and product teams as evaluations, datasets, and…

What they're looking for

• Have a PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, biophysics, machine learning, computer science, or a related quantitative or biological field, or equivalent…
• Have a track record of computational biology research you have led end to end, from question to result, with evidence of impact (for example publications, preprints, released…
• Have demonstrated breadth across multiple areas of computational biology
• Are proficient in one or more programming languages used in scientific computing and comfortable working on large datasets in Linux and cloud compute environments
• Can take an ambiguous biological question, scope the analysis, and produce a result an experimentalist can act on