Anthropic Fellows Program — Reinforcement Learning

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><p><a href="https://bit.ly/afpsafety"><strong>Apply using this link</strong></a><strong>. </strong>We are accepting applications on a rolling basis for the next cohort of Anthropic Fellows, which is expected to start in late September. In some circumstances, we can accommodate fellows starting outside the usual cohort timelines — please note in your application if the September start date doesn't work for you.</p> <p>This page is specific to one of the Anthropic Fellows Workstreams, see also the main&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5023394008">Anthropic Fellows posting</a></strong>.</p> <h1><strong>Anthropic Fellows Program overview</strong></h1> <p>The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to foster AI research and engineering talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent - regardless of previous experience.</p> <p>Fellows will primarily use external infrastructure (e.g. open-source models, public APIs) to work on an empirical project aligned with our research priorities, with the goal of producing a <strong>public output</strong> (e.g. a paper submission). In one of our earlier cohorts, over 80% of fellows produced papers.</p> <p>We run multiple cohorts of Fellows each year and review applications on a rolling basis. This application is for cohorts starting in July 2026 and beyond.</p> <h2><strong>What to expect</strong></h2> <ul> <li>4 months of full-time research&nbsp;</li> <li>Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers&nbsp;</li> <li>Access to a shared workspace (in either Berkeley, California or London, UK)</li> <li>Connection to the broader AI safety and security research community</li> <li>Weekly stipend of 3,850 USD / 2,310 GBP / 4,300 CAD + benefits (these vary by country)</li> <li>Funding for compute (~$15k/month) and other research expenses</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Interview process</strong></h2> <p>The interview process will include an initial application &amp; reference check, technical assessments &amp; interviews, and a research discussion.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.</strong&gt