Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Clinical Development, Rare and Neglected Diseases)

The role

You will support nonprofits, research institutes, academic medical centres, and public-sector funders by using Claude to help develop treatments for rare and neglected diseases. You will advise and embed in partner teams to design clinical trials and build tools for drug repurposing.

What you will do

• Work with partners' trial teams to design, review and prioritise clinical trials with Claude
• Draft and review protocols and statistical analysis plans
• Flag enrolment and operational risks
• Build and validate tools to find new uses for approved medicines from literature, omics and patient data
• Assemble evidence for partners to decide next steps
• Build reusable infrastructure like MCP servers, agent skills, and benchmarks
• Feed field learnings back to product, engineering and research

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Hands-on clinical development experience designing, running or analysing clinical trials, or assessing clinical evidence
• Comfort with biomedical data including literature, omics, and real-world patient data
• Strong engineering skills to take an LLM-powered tool from prototype to production code
• Ability to write evals to measure tools
• Experience working directly with external partners or customers in a technical role
• Clear written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Drug repurposing work
• Contributed to a regulatory submission for a trial

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.