Member of Editorial Staff, Economics & Policy

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.

About the role

Anthropic is working to build a rigorous, evidence-based understanding of AI's economic effects.

We're hiring a writer focused on economics and policy (largely the former). You'll work with the Editorial team's economics and policy Lead on a growing portfolio that includes economic research reports, long-form essays, op-eds, and policy briefs. 

You'll spend much of your time working with economists and researchers, helping them explain their findings plainly. You’ll write for economists, policymakers, journalists, and the public.

You’ll be on the Editorial team, which is responsible for shaping how Anthropic communicates. Our goal is to build understanding about the opportunities and challenges of transformative AI, and we work extensively with partner teams including The Anthropic Institute and our Policy team.

In this role, you'll write about AI's effects on productivity and the labor market, the economics of compute, innovation policy, and regulation, among many other subjects, and you'll help decide which economic and policy questions Anthropic takes up next. You'll do this with an amazing vantage point on what is happening at the frontier.

Key responsibilities

• Work with our economists and researchers to write and edit Anthropic's economic research publications—including the Anthropic Economic Index, and new reports on how AI is affecting work, productivity, and growth.
• Produce rigorous, readable work on the economics and policy of AI in whatever format the subject calls for, including research reports, long-form essays, op-eds, policy briefs, and blog posts.
• Collaborate with Anthropic's economics researchers, Policy team, research scientists, and external economists and policy experts to translate complex findings into accessible public-facing content.
• Engage with economists, policymakers, think tanks, academics, and media to advance productive conversations about AI policy and economics.

You may be a good fit if you have

• A demonstrated ability to write compellingly about complex economic and policy topics for broad audiences.
• A body of published long-form writing on economics, policy, or technology, in any venue.
• Quantitative literacy: you can read and explain an economics working paper.
• Familiarity with how ideas circulate on social platforms like X, and a perspective on how arguments get traction.
• Experience working closely with experts on their own material, earning their trust, and pushing them to make stronger, more defensible arguments.
• Comfort engaging in policy debates while maintaining intellectual rigor and nuance.
• Excitement about Anthropic's mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial.

Strong candidates may also have

• Professional experience doing economic research or analysis, or editing data-heavy research publications.
• Experience working with policymaking institutions (think tanks, government, advocacy organizations), and a working understanding of how Washington operates.
• Direct experience on AI policy or technology policy issues.
• A track record of influencing policy debates through writing and public engagement.
• Published work on economic growth, labor economics, innovation economics, progress studies, regulatory policy, competition policy, or the economics of emerging technologies.
• An audience of your own, ideally that you’ve built on your own.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:$265,000—$295,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.