Anthropic Research Resident
Anthropic · London, UK · posted 2026-11-04
The skills this role asks for
Tick the ones you already have. 7 skills; cover 5 and you are ready to apply, and show you are learning the rest.
- Write, test and compare three prompts 45 minTake one real task from your work. Write three different prompts for it, run each twice, and note which is most reliable and why.Anthropic Academy, free courses
- Build a ten-question test set 60 minWrite ten questions with known right answers for an AI tool you use, score its answers, and write down where it goes wrong.
- Automate one repeat task 60 minPick a task you do every week, describe the steps, and have an AI tool or a no-code tool do it end to end. Keep a human check on anything that sends or pays.
- Train and judge a first model 90 minFollow the course and write two sentences on how you would know if the model is wrong.Kaggle Learn, Intro to Machine Learning (free)
- A one-page spec for an AI feature 60 minWrite the problem, who it is for, what good looks like, how you would test it and what could go wrong.
- A risk note for one AI tool 45 minFor a tool you use, list who could be harmed, what data it sees, and one safeguard you would add.
- Explain an AI product to a sceptic 30 minRecord a two-minute explanation of one AI product to someone who doubts it, including what it cannot do.
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