The opportunity
Biology is the area where scientific progress has perhaps the greatest potential to directly and unambiguously improve human life — and we believe powerful AI could meaningfully accelerate the rate of biological discovery, helping compress decades of progress into years. With…
What you'll do
Build and lead the team: hire, coach, and develop a team of Applied AI Engineers dedicated to strategic life sciences partners, setting a high technical bar and helping each engineer grow.
Own technical success with partners: be accountable for the technical outcomes of our strategic pharma and biotech deployments, from first scoping conversation through production.
Stay hands-on: review and contribute to prototypes, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, and Claude Code for Bio solutions; help the team get unblocked on the hardest technical problems.
Build agent-ready scientific infrastructure: guide the team in creating the deterministic tools, connectors/harnesses, and evaluations that make messy biological data and workflows reliably accessible to Claude — in partnership with scientists and research institutions.
Translate the field into the roadmap: partner cross functionally to turn what you learn from deployments into improvements in Anthropic's life sciences products and models.
Set the standard for responsible deployment: work alongside our safety teams to enable beneficial scientific work while guarding against misuse in a dual-use domain.
What they're looking for
- Build for the frontier: use deep knowledge of frontier model intelligence coupled to your work in R&D and research to rapidly progress toward solutions to meaningful problems in life sciences.
- Have led or technically mentored software/ML engineers, ideally in a: forward-deployed, solutions, or customer-facing engineering setting.
- Have a background in pharma, biotech, computational biology, bioinformatics, or clinical/regulatory affairs.
- Have a strong hands-on engineering background and are comfortable reading and: writing production code, not just managing those who do.
