Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences)

Applied AI Engineer role on Anthropic’s Beneficial Deployments team, focused on maximizing Claude’s impact in life sciences through production deployments and reusable ecosystem tooling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with flagship life sciences research institutions by learning their scientific workflows end-to-end and working alongside their engineering teams to move from early exploration to production systems used in day-to-day science.
• Build reusable ecosystem infrastructure, including MCP servers for domain-specific data sources (genomics platforms, literature databases, experimental repositories), as well as instruments, scientifically-grounded benchmarks, and agent skills that other institutions can adopt.
• Investigate what makes life sciences AI deployment difficult, including heterogeneous data, auditability requirements, and the prototype-to-trust gap, then relay findings back to product, engineering, and research.
• Create technical content and documentation that enables partners to self-serve, helping proven approaches scale across institutions without the same level of ongoing hand-holding.

Requirements

• Deep research experience in life sciences, biomedical research, or scientific computing.
• Bonus: Coursework or study in genomics, neuroscience, or drug discovery, with comfort working at a deep technical level with academics.
• Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
• Proven builder credibility through shipping production code as a software engineer, forward-deployed engineer, or technical founder.
• Scrappy, multi-hat approach, including comfort building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and taking whatever steps are needed to further the mission.

Technologies

• Claude
• LLM-powered tools
• MCP servers

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• A lovely office space for collaboration with colleagues

About Beneficial Deployments

• Ensures AI reaches and benefits communities that need it most.
• Partners with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences.

About the Role

• Primary focus: maximizing the impact of Claude in the life sciences.
• Goal: accelerate scientific progress from R&D through translation by an order of magnitude.
• Embedded work with flagship research partners including The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and The Allen Institute.
• Build production-ready agent prototypes that fit into real research pipelines, plus ecosystem-level tooling such as MCP servers, benchmarks, and reusable agent skills.
• Founding role on the Beneficial Deployments Applied AI team focused on bringing life sciences closer to the frontier.

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, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum Years of Experience

• Years of experience required will correlate with internal job level requirements for the position

Location

• San Francisco, CA (hybrid)

Location-Based Hybrid Policy

• Expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time
• Some roles may require more time in the office

Visa Sponsorship

• Visa sponsorship available
• If an offer is made, every reasonable effort will be made to support visa needs, with an immigration lawyer retained to help

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Job Details

• Salary: USD 280,000 - 320,000 per year
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience