Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments, Life Sciences (Molecular Design) at anthropic

The role

This Applied AI Engineer role focuses on leveraging Claude to accelerate protein and small-molecule design within the Beneficial Deployments team. You will collaborate with research partners to translate modern design models into end-to-end workflows and production-ready agents.

What you'll do

• Prototype and write production code for protein and molecular design
• Build reusable agents and skills that wrap design and structure tools
• Collaborate with wet-lab partners in design-make-test loops
• Develop benchmarks and evaluations for design and structure tasks
• Support research efforts to understand protein sequence-to-function relationships
• Create cookbooks and documentation to scale impact across various labs

What you'll bring

• Experience applying protein or small-molecule design to drug development
• Proficiency with molecular dynamics or large-scale antibody data
• Hands-on use of tools like AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, or ProteinMPNN
• Strong engineering skills to move LLM tools from prototype to production
• Ability to quantitatively measure success in computational drug design

Your impact

You will accelerate life sciences discovery by integrating AI into real-world workflows, helping mission-driven organizations and labs reach breakthroughs faster. Your work will bridge the gap between advanced AI models and practical biological applications, ultimately raising the floor for global health and scientific innovation.