AI Safety Fellow

About Anthropic

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.

Please apply by January 12, 2026

The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to accelerate AI safety research and foster research talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent – regardless of previous experience – to research the frontier of AI safety for four months.

Fellows will primarily use external infrastructure (e.g. open‑source models, public APIs) to work on an empirical project aligned with our research priorities, with the goal of producing a public output (e.g. a paper submission). In our previous cohorts, over 80% of fellows produced papers.

We run multiple cohorts of Fellows each year. This application is for our next two cohorts, starting in May and July 2026.

• Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers
• Access to a shared workspace (in either Berkeley, California or London, UK)
• Connection to the broader AI safety research community
• Weekly stipend of 3,850 USD / 2,310 GBP / 4,300 CAN & access to benefits (benefits vary by country)
• Funding for compute (~$15k/month) and other research expenses

Fellows will undergo a project selection & mentor matching process. Potential mentors among others include:

• Sam Bowman
• Alex Tamkin
• Trenton Bricken
• Collin Burns
• Samuel Marks
• Kyle Fish
• Nina Rimsky
• Ethan Perez

Our mentors will lead projects in select AI safety research areas, such as:

• Scalable Oversight:
  Developing techniques to keep highly capable models helpful and honest, even as they surpass human‑level intelligence in various domains.
• Adversarial Robustness and AI Control:
  Creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios.
• Model Organisms:
  Creating model organisms of misalignment to improve our empirical understanding of how alignment failures might arise.
• Model Internals / Mechanistic Interpretability:
  Advancing our understanding of the internal workings of large language models to enable more targeted interventions and safety measures.
• AI Welfare:
  Improving our understanding of potential AI welfare and developing related evaluations and mitigations.
• Open‑source circuits:
  Michael Hanna and Mateusz Piotrowski with mentorship from Emmanuel Ameisen and Jack Lindsey.
• Are motivated by reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
• Are excited to transition into full‑time empirical AI safety research and would be interested in a full‑time role at Anthropic.

Please note:

We do not guarantee that we will make any full‑time offers to fellows. However, strong performance during the program may indicate that a Fellow would be a good fit here  previous cohorts, over 40% of fellows received a full‑time offer, and we’ve supported many more to go on to do great work on safety at other organizations.

• Have a strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, physics, cybersecurity, or related fields.
• Thrive in fast‑paced, collaborative environments.
• Can implement ideas quickly and communicate clearly.

• Experience with empirical ML research projects.
• Experience working with Large Language Models.
• Experience in one of the research areas mentioned above.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks and experiment management.
• Track record of open‑source contributions.

• Fluent in Python programming.
• Available to work full‑time on the Fellows program for 4 months.

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 you’re…