Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform

As a Research Engineer on the Economic Research Data Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure that powers Anthropic’s research on AI’s economic impact. You will work with data systems from across Anthropic, including our research tools for privacy-preserving analysis.

The Economic Research team is part of the Anthropic Institute, and studies the economic implications of AI on individual, firm, and economy-wide outcomes. We build scalable systems to monitor AI usage patterns and directly measure the impact of AI adoption on real-world outcomes. We publish research and data, including the Anthropic Economic Index, for the benefit of the public - helping policymakers, businesses, and workers understand and navigate the transition to powerful AI. The questions we work on include: how is AI changing jobs and economic activity, who is adopting it and why, and what determines whether a region or industry captures value from it.

In this role, you will work closely with teams across Anthropic - including Data Science and Analytics, Data Infrastructure, Societal Impacts, and Public Policy - to build scalable and robust data systems that support high-leverage, high-impact research. Strong candidates will have a track record building data processing pipelines, architecting and implementing high-quality internal infrastructure, working in a fast-paced environment, and navigating ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate the data pipelines that turn raw usage data into clean, reusable, privacy-preserving datasets
• Design new systems - including developing classifiers, training probes on model internals, and building the ML pipelines behind them - for understanding how Claude is used and the impact it’s having on the economy
• Build self-serve workflows to ingest and integrate external data sources so they’re interoperable with internal datasets
• Develop the APIs, libraries, and interfaces that serve data to researchers and the public
• Partner closely with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and other cross-functional partners to advance Anthropic’s safety mission
• Contribute to the team roadmap, documentation, and practices that enable self-serve data access while maintaining safety and governance standards
• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and privacy compliance across all economic research data infrastructure

• Have significant experience building data-intensive applications, pipelines, or internal tooling in production
• Have experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS or GCP, and take pride in writing clean, well-documented code in Python that others can build upon
• Have intuition for analytics workflows and empathy for how researchers and data scientists work
• Are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information while keeping engineering standards high
• Have a “full-stack mindset”, not hesitating to do what it takes to solve a problem end-to-end, even if it requires going outside the original job description
• Have strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with economists, researchers, and cross-functional partners who may have varying levels of technical expertise
• Care about the societal impacts of your work, and are interested in AI’s economic implications

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with modern data transformation, orchestration, and query frameworks
• Building systems and products on top of LLMs
• Privacy-preserving data systems, or data governance and lineage tooling
• Building and operating web services and the infrastructure underneath them
• Full-stack development or complex data visualization
• Background in econometrics, statistics, or quantitative social science
• Working in environments where engineers partner closely with quantitative users - research labs, trading firms, analytics companies, Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $320,000-$405,000 USD, 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.

Anthropic’s 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., 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. We’re 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.