Public Health and Life Sciences Lead

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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.

Anthropic is seeking a dedicated Public Health and Life Sciences Lead. In this role you will work within the life sciences domain cultivating partnerships with researchers and identifying strategic opportunities to accelerate positive AI applications in public health biotechnology and related fields. You will be responsible for building and managing a portfolio of highimpact partnerships with researchers companies and nonprofits to demonstrate and scale positive AI use cases in public health and life sciences.

This position offers a unique opportunity to shape how frontier AI technology can advance scientific discovery and improve human health. You will work at the intersection of cuttingedge AI and life sciences helping to define Anthropics strategy and presence in this critical sector while ensuring our technology is applied responsibly and effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Craft and drive a vision for how AI can improve public health and accelerate life sciences discoveries
• Build and cultivate relationships with key institutions universities and conferences to source highquality researchers and organizations to partner with
• Identify product and research improvements that could enhance public health and life sciences applications
• Lead researcher selection and support partners in fully leveraging Anthropics models in their work
• Identify specific areas of focus to catalyze positive change across public health and life sciences and develop strategic partnerships with aligned organizations
• Collaborate with the Partnerships lead to engage foundations on ecosystem challenges and distribution and work with GTM team to scale promising applications
• Drive strategic planning and of communications initiatives including case studies and conference presentations
• Create and implement metrics to track program success and refine approaches
• Help identify big bet opportunities that merit longterm investment from Anthropics teams

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Advanced degree in a life sciences field or equivalent experience
• 5 years of experience in life sciences research public health or related roles
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage complex partnerships across academia and industry and nonprofits
• Strong understanding of health technologies
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts
• Strategic thinking with ability to identify highimpact opportunities
• Project management experience with track record of delivering results
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical
• Experience working with technical products and translating capabilities into scientific value

Strong Candidates may also have:

• PhD in a relevant field
• Experience in public health or life sciences philanthropy and/or venture capital
• Experience in product management in public health or life sciences technology

• Experience with AI research or uses in healthcare or biotechnology settings
• Network of contacts within leading life sciences research institutions and companies
• Experience in program development and management
• Publication record or demonstrated contributions to life sciences advancement

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Locationbased 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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

How were different

We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm 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. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highestimpact 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: GPT3 CircuitBased 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.