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.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis for the next cohort of Anthropic Fellows, which is expected to start in late September. In some circumstances, we can accommodate fellows starting outside the usual cohort timelines; please note in your application if the September start date doesn’t work for you.
Anthropic Fellows Program Overview
The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to foster AI research and engineering talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent—regardless of previous experience. Fellows will primarily use external infrastructure (e.g., open‑source models, public APIs) to work on an empirical project aligned with our research priorities, with the goal of producing a public output (e.g., a paper submission). In one of our earlier cohorts, over 80% of fellows produced papers. We run multiple cohorts of Fellows each year and review applications on a rolling basis. This application is for cohorts starting in July 2026 and beyond.
What to Expect
- 4months of full‑time research
- Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers
- Access to a shared workspace (in either Berkeley, California or London, UK)
- Connection to the broader AI safety and security research community
- Weekly stipend of3,850USD/2,310GBP/4,300CAD plus benefits (varying by country)
- Funding for compute (~$15k/month) and other research expenses
Interview Process
The interview process will include an initial application and reference check, technical assessments and interviews, and a research discussion. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Compensation
The expected base stipend for this role is3,850USD/2,310GBP/4,300CAD per week, with an expectation of 40hours per week for 4months (with possible extension).
Fellows Workstreams
Due to the success of the Anthropic Fellows for AI Safety Research program, we are now expanding it across teams at Anthropic. We expect significant overlap in the types of skills and responsibilities across the roles and will by default consider candidates for all the workstreams. Some of the workstreams may include unique assessment steps; we therefore ask for workstream preferences in the application.
- AI Safety Fellows
- AI Security Fellows
- ML Systems & Performance Fellows
- Reinforcement Learning Fellows
- Economics & Societal Impacts Fellows
