Research Economist, Economic Research · Anthropic

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:45:19 GMT
Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300,000-$405,000 USD · hybrid

As a Research Economist at Anthropic, you will work to measure and understand AI's effects on the global economy. You will make fundamental contributions to the development of the Anthropic Economic Index, establishing new methodologies to measure the usage, diffusion, and impact of AI throughout the economy using privacy-preserving tools and novel data sources. You will use frontier methods in econometrics, machine learning, and structural estimation. Such rigour will drive impact, shaping both policy discussions externally and informing Anthropic’s internal business and product decisions.

Our team combines rigorous empirical methods with novel measurement approaches. We're building first-of-its-kind datasets tracking AI's impact on labor markets, productivity, and economic transformation. Using our privacy-preserving measurement system (Clio), we analyze millions of real-world AI interactions to understand how AI augments and automates work across different occupations and tasks.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working at the intersection of empirical economics, technological change, and policy impact. They will have a strong track record of empirical research, particularly studies combining novel data sources and economic theory or those implementing frontier methods in causal inference and machine learning.

Some examples of our recent work include:

Anthropic Economic Index Report: Economic Primitives

Anthropic Economic Index Report: Uneven Geographic and Enterprise AI Adoption

Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations

The Anthropic Economic Index

For this role, we're looking for candidates who can combine rigorous economic analysis with novel measurement approaches to understand AI's transformative effects on the economy.