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.

Source: Crypto Briefing