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Head of Responsible Scaling

Anthropic

Anthropic

San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 17, 2024

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.

Role Overview:

As the Head of Responsible Scaling at Anthropic, you will lead a multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving and operationalizing Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) and implementing cutting-edge safety measures across the organization. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of AI safety and responsible development at one of the leading AI research companies.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and grow the Responsible Scaling Team, overseeing core work streams including Capability Evaluations, Safety Mitigations, Policy Drafting, and Risk Management & Governance.
  • Make key recommendations to leadership in order to refine and implement Anthropic's approach to scaling responsibly, with the goal of raising safety standards in the industry and mitigating catastrophic risks from AI models.
  • Drive the operationalization of the RSP technical roadmap and high-level commitments, making critical decisions as needed.
  • Design and oversee the execution of testing frameworks to proactively identify and assess potential risks in Anthropic's AI systems.
  • Collaborate with the Trust & Safety team to guide the development and implementation of cutting-edge safeguards, and with the security team to ensure advanced AI models are appropriately secured.
  • Build relationships with independent oversight, testing, and assurance organizations, including in government.
  • Foster collaboration with teams across Anthropic to integrate responsible scaling practices into all aspects of AI development and deployment.
  • Represent Anthropic's responsible scaling efforts to external stakeholders, including industry partners, policymakers, and the broader AI safety community.
  • Stay at the forefront of AI safety research and best practices, incorporating insights from relevant fields such as nuclear security, biosecurity, systems safety, and cybersecurity.
  • Forecast further AI progress and risks, and help to chart a path to a future where transformative AI systems are secure, safety, and broadly beneficial.

Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of the technical, societal, and ethical challenges in the development and deployment of advanced AI.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience in AI/ML, with a strong focus on AI safety, ethics, or responsible development.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and driving complex, high-impact initiatives.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, as well as strong stakeholder management.
  • Demonstrated commitment to AI safety and alignment with Anthropic's mission.
  • Experience in risk management, systems safety, or related domains is desirable.
  • Familiarity with relevant regulatory frameworks and policy discussions in the AI field.

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:
$345,000$475,000 USD

Logistics

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.

Compensation and Benefits*

Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:

  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
  • 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
  • Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
  • Fertility benefits via Carrot.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:

  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
  • Health cash plan.
  • Life insurance and income protection.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

How we're different

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.

Come work with us!

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.