Research Operations Specialist, External Artifacts

Details

Overview

Anthropic publishes risk reports: long-form technical documents laying out assessments of the most serious potential risks from models in domains like CBRN, cyber operations, and AI autonomy. These reports also include evaluation results behind that assessment, the safeguards applied, and the reasoning for why a given model is safe to deploy under Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy.

Some risk reports are standalone periodic assessments; others are targeted and produced when a specific frontier model is released. Risk reports are among the most consequential external documents Anthropic produces and are a primary mechanism for publicly accountable safety claims.

This role is a Research Operations position embedded with safety and research teams through each report cycle. You will coordinate contributions from dozens of researchers, hold the schedule and open-threads list, and ensure each document ships on time as a single, internally consistent whole. You will also do substantive editorial work—turning evaluation results, threat models, and researcher notes into clear prose and pushing back when a safety argument doesn’t hold together.

Risk reports sit within a wider family of external safety artifacts, including system cards and Responsible Scaling Policy updates. Part of the role is keeping those documents consistent with each other so that what Anthropic commits to in one place matches what it commits to and delivers on everywhere else.

Responsibilities

• Drive risk report production end to end: own the timeline, the contributor list, and the open-threads tracker
• Coordinate core contributors across Frontier Red Team, Safeguards, Alignment, Interpretability, and capabilities research; chase drafts, resolve disagreements, find ground truth, and run the final polish pass
• Edit (and sometimes write) content; work with researchers and red-teamers to turn evaluation results, threat models, and plots into clear, non-marketing prose, and keep Anthropic’s voice consistent across sections drafted by many different people
• Guard accuracy and consistency: catch terminology drift, risk claims that subtly contradict each other, and gaps between internal findings and what the draft says
• Keep the risk report aligned with system cards, RSP disclosures, and other safety documentation, and flag conflicts early
• Improve the process between reports; build templates, style guidance, and contributor checklists so each cycle starts from a stronger baseline
• Pick up other research-adjacent operations and writing work related to Anthropic’s external artifacts and RSP

Requirements

• Demonstrated technical writing ability: can take dense, jargon-heavy source material and produce prose that is precise and readable by a smart non-specialist
• Working conceptual knowledge of large language models, with fluency in terms like pretraining, RLHF, context windows, evals, red-teaming, and capability thresholds
• Ability to read evaluation results tables, ask clarifying questions, and identify gaps in a technical argument
• Track record of driving complex, multi-contributor projects to completion against hard deadlines

Preferred qualifications

• Strong project coordination instincts; experience managing many parallel open threads across contributors who are juggling other high-priority work
• Ability to coordinate and influence without direct authority across research and engineering teams
• An eye for data presentation; can assess whether a chart or table could be clearer or more accurate
• Familiarity with AI safety, AI policy, alignment research, national security operations and/or policy, or threat modeling beyond baseline LLM knowledge
• Experience with safety or compliance documentation: safety cases, risk assessments, security disclosures, or clinical/scientific reporting
• Background in science communication, research publishing, or technical journalism
• Track record of shipping long-form technical documents (research reports, whitepapers, standards, or regulatory filings)
• Experience producing polished, visually consistent documents; an eye for layout and on-brand presentation
• Comfort using frontier LLM tools as a productivity aid without substituting them for independent judgment

Compensation

Annual Salary: $260,000 - $310,000 USD

Logistics and policy

• Location-based hybrid policy: expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in offices
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic sponsors visas; if an offer is made, it will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and retains an immigration lawyer to help