Regional Research Economist, Economic Research

The role

You will collaborate with governments, academia, industry, and civil society to measure and understand AI's economic effects. You will develop the Anthropic Economic Index and establish methodologies to measure AI's impact on the economy using econometrics, machine learning, and structural estimation.

What you will do

• Build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, policy think tanks, and research partners
• Advance research collaborations for regional economic impact questions
• Translate research insights into actionable recommendations for policy discussions
• Contribute to the development and expansion of the Anthropic Economic Index
• Design and collaborate on empirical research on AI's economic effects
• Develop new methodological approaches for studying AI's impact on labor, productivity, and inequality
• Work cross-functionally with technical teams to improve measurement infrastructure
• Amplify external engagement through publications, policy briefs, and presentations

Required qualifications

• PhD in Economics
• Strong track record of empirical research combining novel data sources and economic theory or frontier methods in causal inference and machine learning
• Demonstrated experience working in and relevant relationships across the region
• Experience in labor market analysis and occupational change
• Experience in task-based approaches to technological transformation
• Experience in large-scale data analysis and econometric methods
• Experience in large language models for social science research
• Experience in policy-relevant economic research
• Experience in experimental and quasi-experimental methods for causal inference
• Experience in macroeconomic modeling and time series forecasting
• Experience in agent-based modeling or large-scale simulation
• Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, or similar tools for large-scale data analysis

Nice to have

• Experience working with novel datasets and measurement systems
• Comfort learning new technical tools and frameworks

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.