As a Research Scientist Manager, you will lead a world-class team of research scientists and engineers, defining the research roadmap and driving execution from early prototyping to deployment. You'll thrive in a fast-moving environment, balancing deep technical leadership with people management, vision setting, and delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of research scientists and engineers working on GenAI research initiatives
• Defining and driving a multi-year research roadmap, identifying key scientific questions, setting milestones, allocating resources, and ensuring rigorous execution
• Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, client-facing teams, and external academic or industry partners to translate research into components, insights, and actionable outcomes
• Communicating compellingly, publishing research, presenting at conferences, engaging in open-source contributions, and representing the team externally
• Driving an inclusive, high-performing culture, helping your team through technical challenges, providing growth opportunities, and attracting top talent

Ideal candidates will have:

• 5+ years of hands-on research experience in machine learning, deep learning, generative models, agent/RL systems, or related domains
• A strong track record of research excellence, including publications in top-tier ML/AI venues
• Experience leading or managing research teams, mentoring, coaching, and developing talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, articulating research ideas and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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As Director of Enterprise ML, you will lead a world-class team of research scientists and engineers, define the research roadmap, and drive execution from early prototyping to deployment. You’ll thrive in a fast-moving environment, balancing deep technical leadership with people management, vision setting, and delivery.

This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in ambiguity, understands both frontier GenAI capabilities and their limitations, and is motivated by turning research into durable, production-ready systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of research scientists and engineers working on GenAI research initiatives
• Defining and driving a multi-year research roadmap, identifying key scientific questions, setting milestones, allocating resources, and ensuring rigorous execution
• Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, client-facing teams, and external academic or industry partners to translate research into components, insights, and actionable outcomes
• Communicating compellingly, publishing research, presenting at conferences, engaging in open-source contributions, and representing the team externally
• Driving an inclusive, high-performing culture, helping your team through technical challenges, providing growth opportunities, and attracting top talent

Core qualifications include:

• 8+ years of hands-on research experience in machine learning, deep learning, generative models, agent/RL systems, or related domains
• A strong track record of research excellence, including publications in top-tier ML/AI venues
• Experience leading or managing research teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-have qualifications include:

• Hands-on experience building and deploying agent-based, tool-augmented, or workflow-driven LLM systems in enterprise environments
• Prior ownership of enterprise AI platforms, internal ML products, or customer-facing AI services at scale
• Proven track record of partnering directly with enterprises to identify high-impact use cases and deliver measurable business outcomes

Compensation packages at Scale include base salary, equity, and benefits, with a salary range of $289,800-$362,250 USD for this full-time position in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle.

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Your work will span the full lifecycle of model development. You'll research and build new long-horizon evaluations that test the boundaries of what our models can achieve, develop novel approaches to measuring emerging capabilities, and deepen our understanding of how those capabilities develop , both during production RL training and after. You'll also take a cross-organisational view, working across Reinforcement Learning, Pretraining, Inference, Product, Alignment, Safeguards, and other teams to map the landscape of model evaluations at Anthropic and identify critical gaps in coverage.

This role carries significant visibility and impact. You'll help shape the evaluation narrative for model releases, contributing directly to how Anthropic communicates about its models to both internal and external audiences. Done well, you will change how the industry measures and understands model capabilities, significantly furthering our safety mission.

Responsibilities:

• Build new novel and long-horizon evaluations
• Develop novel measurement approaches for understanding how model capabilities emerge and evolve during RL training
• Lead strategic evaluation coverage across the company
• Shape the evaluation narrative for model releases
• Lead and mentor a small team of researchers and research engineers, setting research direction and fostering a culture of rigorous, creative research
• Design evaluation frameworks that balance scientific rigor with the practical demands of production training schedules
• Build and maintain relationships across Anthropic's research organisation to ensure evaluation insights inform training and deployment decisions
• Contribute to the broader research community through publications, open-source contributions, or external engagement on evaluation best practices

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have significant experience designing and running evaluations for large language models or similar complex ML systems
• Have led technical projects or teams, either formally or through sustained ownership of critical research directions
• Are equally comfortable designing experiments and writing code,you can move between research and implementation fluidly
• Think strategically about what to measure and why, not just how to measure it
• Can synthesise information across multiple teams and workstreams to form a coherent picture of model capabilities
• Communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Are results-oriented and thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities shift based on research findings
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your work to directly influence how capable AI systems are developed and deployed

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience building evaluations for long-horizon or agentic tasks
• Deep familiarity with Reinforcement Learning training dynamics and how model behaviour changes during training
• Published research in machine learning evaluation, benchmarking, or related areas
• Experience with safety evaluation frameworks and red teaming methodologies
• Background in psychometrics, experimental psychology, or other measurement-focused disciplines
• A track record of communicating evaluation results to inform high-stakes decisions about model development or deployment
• Experience managing or mentoring researchers and engineers

Representative projects:

• Designing and implementing a suite of long-horizon evaluations that test model capabilities on tasks requiring sustained reasoning, planning, and tool use over extended interactions
• Building systems to track capability development across RL training checkpoints, surfacing insights about when and how specific capabilities emerge
• Conducting a cross-org audit of evaluation coverage, identifying blind spots, and prioritising new evaluations to fill critical gaps across Pretraining, RL, Inference, and Product
• Developing the evaluation methodology and narrative for a major model release, working with research leads and communications to clearly characterise model capabilities and limitations
• Researching and prototyping novel evaluation approaches for capabilities that are difficult to measure with existing benchmarks
• Leading a team effort to build reusable evaluation infrastructure that serves multiple teams across the research organisation

The annual compensation range for this role is $850,000.

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