Economic Development Research Jobs in California

As a Research Engineer on the Economic Research Data Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure that powers Anthropic's research on AI's economic impact. You will work with data systems from across Anthropic, including our research tools for privacy-preserving analysis.

The Economic Research team is part of the Anthropic Institute, and studies the economic implications of AI on individual, firm, and economy-wide outcomes. We build scalable systems to monitor AI usage patterns and directly measure the impact of AI adoption on real-world outcomes. We publish research and data, including the Anthropic Economic Index, for the benefit of the public - helping policymakers, businesses, and workers understand and navigate the transition to powerful AI. The questions we work on include: how is AI changing jobs and economic activity, who is adopting it and why, and what determines whether a region or industry captures value from it.

In this role, you will work closely with teams across Anthropic - including Data Science and Analytics, Data Infrastructure, Societal Impacts, and Public Policy - to build scalable and robust data systems that support high-leverage, high-impact research. Strong candidates will have a track record building data processing pipelines, architecting and implementing high-quality internal infrastructure, working in a fast-paced environment, and navigating ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate the data pipelines that turn raw usage data into clean, reusable, privacy-preserving datasets
• Design new systems - including developing classifiers, training probes on model internals, and building the ML pipelines behind them - for understanding how Claude is used and the impact it's having on the economy
• Build self-serve workflows to ingest and integrate external data sources so they're interoperable with internal datasets
• Develop the APIs, libraries, and interfaces that serve data to researchers and the public
• Partner closely with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and other cross-functional partners to advance Anthropic's safety mission
• Contribute to the team roadmap, documentation, and practices that enable self-serve data access while maintaining safety and governance standards
• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and privacy compliance across all economic research data infrastructure

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have significant experience building data-intensive applications, pipelines, or internal tooling in production
• Have experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS or GCP, and take pride in writing clean, well-documented code in Python that others can build upon
• Have intuition for analytics workflows and empathy for how researchers and data scientists work
• Are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information while keeping engineering standards high
• Have a "full-stack mindset", not hesitating to do what it takes to solve a problem end-to-end, even if it requires going outside the original job description
• Have strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with economists, researchers, and cross-functional partners who may have varying levels of technical expertise
• Care about the societal impacts of your work, and are interested in AI's economic implications

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with modern data transformation, orchestration, and query frameworks
• Building systems and products on top of LLMs
• Privacy-preserving data systems, or data governance and lineage tooling
• Building and operating web services and the infrastructure underneath them
• Full-stack development or complex data visualization
• Background in econometrics, statistics, or quantitative social science
• Working in environments where engineers partner closely with quantitative users - research labs, trading firms, analytics companies

• • Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves 
  • Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence 
  • Anthropic Economic Index Report: Economic Primitives
  • Anthropic Economic Index Report: Uneven Geographic and Enterprise AI Adoption
  • Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations
  • The Anthropic Economic Index

Deadline to apply: None. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis