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Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$210k - $260kUnknownPosted 4w ago

About the role

Experienced operations professional embedded with the leadership of Anthropic's reinforcement learning (RL) organization to optimize leadership focus, decision-making, and execution across RL programs.

Responsibilities

  • Own leadership's time. Shape the week around the leaders' specific, most timely priorities, set agendas so meetings are spent on decisions that move the org forward, and cut what isn't critical so leaders stay focused on the areas that are highest-leverage for them.
  • Triage what reaches leadership. Resolve what you can, route what belongs elsewhere, and thoughtfully escalate the rest.
  • Enable wise decision-making and follow through. Give leaders what they need to decide quickly, communicate those decisions to collaborators, and track commitments through to completion.
  • See problems coming. Surface resourcing gaps, technical bottlenecks, and stalled action-items before they become blockers.
  • Scale leadership voice. Draft materials for org-wide announcements, programming, and planning sessions. Protect leadership’s time for creating durable comms that set direction in turbulent times.
  • Make the org run better. Find the friction that keeps recurring and find the people who can fix the process behind it.
  • Be a thought partner. Offer honest, candid counsel to leaders, including crisp and kind disagreement.

Qualifications

  • Care deeply about Anthropic's mission and let it underpin judgment calls across the org.
  • Technical fluency to engage substantively with researchers: follow RL discussions, read eval results, form hypotheses, and discuss model training concepts without needing to have trained a model yourself.
  • Clear writing: translate dense material into summaries and plans actionable by technical collaborators.
  • An eye for great dashboards: interpret data visualizations and propose clear, grounded improvements.
  • Strong follow-through and attention to detail; nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Ability to push back on senior stakeholders to offer strategic guidance and influence without direct authority.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-changing environment; maintain steadiness under high pace and high stakes.
  • Experience in operations/chief of staff/program management supporting senior leaders in a fast-moving technical organization.
  • High integrity; role involves decisions impacting Anthropic’s mission.

Skills

Required:Mission alignmentTechnical fluency with RL conceptsClear writingDashboard and data visualization sense

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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