# Research Associate, Biology

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,000-$85,000 USD
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company's Life Sciences team is building a world-class research group focused on making fundamental biological discoveries. The team combines cutting-edge AI with hands-on biological research.

We are hiring Research Associates: early-career bench scientists who will join a small team to help establish our biology research program. You will work directly alongside senior scientists, executing and troubleshooting experiments at the bench while learning advanced techniques in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Execute molecular biology and biochemistry experiments at the bench under the direction of senior scientists.

- Maintain meticulous, reproducible records and contribute to shared protocols.

- Troubleshoot experiments, propose adjustments, and present results clearly in group meetings.

- Maintain mammalian and bacterial cell lines, materials stocks, and reagent inventories.

- Learn and adopt new techniques rapidly as projects evolve, with training provided.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Hands-on research experience in molecular biology, biochemistry, or a closely related field.

- Proficiency with foundational molecular biology techniques: PCR, gel electrophoresis, molecular cloning, and plasmid preparation.

- Experience with aseptic technique and bacterial or mammalian cell culture, and with nucleic acid extraction, purification, and quantification.

- Highly motivated, eager to learn, and energized by hands-on bench work.

- Practical and resourceful.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- A BS or MS in molecular biology, biochemistry, chemical biology, microbiology, bioengineering, or a related discipline.

- Protein expression and purification experience.

- Mammalian cell culture experience, including transfection and stable line maintenance.

- Enzyme kinetics or quantitative biochemical assay development.

- Next-generation sequencing library preparation experience.

- Familiarity with common bioinformatics workflows and molecular biology software.

- Experience using AI tools such as Claude in a research setting.

The annual compensation range for this role is $65,000-$85,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- molecular biology
- biochemistry
- PCR
- gel electrophoresis
- molecular cloning
- plasmid preparation
- aseptic technique
- cell culture
- nucleic acid extraction

### Nice to have
- protein expression
- purification
- mammalian cell culture
- transfection
- stable line maintenance
- enzyme kinetics
- quantitative biochemical assay development
- next-generation sequencing
- bioinformatics
- AI tools

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