Recruiter, Mergers & Acquisitions

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 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 were focused on building systems that are safe and beneficial.

Anthropic has an ambitious mission with high stakes and tight some cases the talent we need to achieve our vision cant be accessed through traditional recruiting alone. Thats where M&A comes in.

Were 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 Anthropics efforts to remain on the frontier.

• 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

• 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 exceptionaland the judgment to assess whether a team meets Anthropics 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 Anthropics mission and the role M&A plays in supporting it

• Experience recruiting at a high-growth AI or machine learning company
• Experience with founder recruiting or executive search in technical domains

Anthropics 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.

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you 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 youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit for confirmed position openings.

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. Were 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.

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 aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.