Anthropic opens paid Residency program for senior technical talent, applications due November 22

The Claude maker is offering prorated pay of $350,000 to $500,000 a year to professors, founders, and staff engineers willing to pivot into AI safety research Anthropic wants your physics professor. Also your startup founder friend, and that staff engineer who keeps saying they want to do something meaningful. The San Francisco company behind the Claude models has opened applications for the Anthropic Residency. It is a paid, fixed-term research program for experienced technical leaders who want to move into full-time AI safety work. The deadline is November 22, 2026. The pitch is unusual for a frontier AI lab. You don’t need a machine learning background, a PhD, or a stack of published papers to apply. What the Residency actually offers Placements run anywhere from six weeks to six months. The research summary describes three tracks: six weeks, three months, or six months. The money is serious. Compensation is set at $350,000 to $500,000 on an annualized basis, prorated to match how long a resident stays. Residents also get mentorship and working resources. That includes access to Claude models and GPU compute. Location depends on duration. Shorter placements come with remote opti...