Job Description
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.
Anthropic is seeking an entrepreneurial Data Operations Manager to spearhead human data collection initiatives that directly power our most advanced AI research capabilities. You'll work across our Coding, Computer Use, and Alignment Science teams to design, build, and scale complex data collection projects that push the boundaries of what's possible with agentic AI systems.
This is a highly strategic, 0-to-1 role designed for someone with a strong software engineering background who has evolved into driving business outcomes - think CTO of a startup or technical founder who thrives at the intersection of technology and operations. You'll be responsible for creating novel data collection methodologies, building scalable processes from scratch, and solving complex technical challenges that directly improve Claude's coding and computer use capabilities.
You will own "data as the product" for our most critical AI research initiatives, translating cutting-edge research needs into robust, scalable data collection systems. This role requires the technical depth to understand complex AI systems combined with the strategic mindset to build and scale operations that support frontier model development.
As our Data Operations Manager, you'll be at the forefront of developing the data infrastructure that enables breakthrough advances in AI capabilities. Your work will directly contribute to making AI systems more capable at complex reasoning, coding, and computer use tasks while maintaining our commitment to safety and alignment. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape how frontier AI systems are trained and evaluated, working with some of the most advanced AI research in the world.
If you're excited about building something entirely new, have the technical depth to understand complex AI systems, and possess the entrepreneurial drive to create scalable operations from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.
Strategic Leadership & Vision
Technical Infrastructure & Innovation
Cross-functional Partnership
Operational Excellence & Scaling
Project Execution & Management
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:$270,000—$290,000 USDEducation requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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 interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Anthropic is an AI research company focused on the safety of AI systems. Its research includes natural language processing, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. The initial product is Claude, an AI assistant for various tasks. The company develops AI systems that prioritize safety, transparency, and alignment with human values.
