Anthropic OPT Eligible Jobs USA
Anthropic hires OPT students into research, engineering, and policy roles, making it a strong option for F-1 graduates in AI safety and machine learning. The company's H-1B visa sponsorship history signals a genuine pathway from OPT employment through to long-term work authorization.
See All Anthropic JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 161+ Anthropic OPT Eligible Jobs USA


Have you applied for this role?


Have you applied for this role?


Have you applied for this role?


Have you applied for this role?


Have you applied for this role?
See all 161+ Anthropic OPT Eligible Jobs USA
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Anthropic OPT Eligible Jobs USA.
Get Access To All Jobs
About Anthropic
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.
About the role:
We are looking for Research Engineers to help us redesign how Claude interacts with external data sources. Many of the paradigms for how data and knowledge bases are organized assume human consumers and constraints. This is no longer true in a world of LLMs! Your job will be to design new architectures for how information is organized, and train language models to optimally use those architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing from scratch new information architecture strategies
- Performing finetuning and reinforcement learning to teach language models how to interact with new information architectures
- Building “hard” knowledge base eval sets to help identify failure modes of how language models work with external data
- Designing and evaluating advanced agentic search capabilities.
You may be a good fit if you:
- Are a very experienced Python programmer who can quickly produce reliable, high quality code that your teammates love using
- Have good machine learning research experience
- Have experience developing software that utilizes Large Language Models such as Claude
- Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Want to partner with world-class ML researchers to develop new LLM capabilities
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
- Have clear written and verbal communication
Strong candidates will also have experience with:
- Collaborating with product teams to quickly prototype and deliver innovative solutions
- Building complex agentic systems that utilize LLMs
- Developing scalable distributed information retrieval systems, such as search engines, knowledge graphs, RAG, indexing, ranking, query understanding, and distributed data processing
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$350,000 - $850,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
Job Roles at Anthropic
See all 161+ Anthropic Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Anthropic roles.
Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Anthropic OPT Eligible Jobs USA
Align your research background with safety
Anthropic's hiring centers on AI safety, interpretability, and alignment research. Frame your academic work around these areas explicitly in your application materials. Reviewers distinguish candidates whose research directly engages safety questions from those with general ML experience.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting
STEM OPT's 24-month extension requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify. Verify Anthropic's active enrollment status directly with your DSO before signing an offer, so your extension timeline isn't delayed by administrative gaps at the start date.
Target roles with clear degree requirements
OPT authorization is tied to your field of study. Research scientist, software engineer, and policy analyst roles at Anthropic map cleanly to STEM and social science degree fields. Prioritize postings where the required qualifications match your degree title, not just your skills.
Start your H-1B transition conversation early
Anthropic has sponsored H-1B visas across technical and research functions. Raise the H-1B sponsorship question during the offer stage, not after you've started. Knowing their internal process timeline helps you plan around the April lottery registration window with USCIS.
Use Migrate Mate to identify Anthropic's filing patterns
Before your final-round interviews, use Migrate Mate to review Anthropic's H-1B and E-3 Labor Condition Application history by job title. That data shows which roles the company has historically sponsored, giving you concrete talking points when discussing long-term visa support.
Document your employment authorization proactively
Provide your DSO with your Anthropic offer letter promptly so they can update your SEVIS record and issue a new I-20 before your OPT start date. Delays in SEVIS updates can create gaps that complicate your I-9 verification on day one.
Anthropic OPT Eligibility: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Anthropic sponsor OPT visas?
Anthropic hires students who already hold an OPT Employment Authorization Document issued by USCIS. The company does not petition for OPT itself. What matters for your STEM OPT extension is that Anthropic is enrolled in E-Verify, which enables the 24-month extension beyond your initial 12-month authorization period.
Which roles at Anthropic are most likely to support OPT students?
Research scientist, research engineer, software engineer, and policy roles have historically aligned with OPT work authorization at Anthropic. Roles in AI safety, interpretability, and applied research are the strongest fit, particularly for graduates in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and related STEM fields.
How do I confirm my OPT authorization is valid for working at Anthropic?
Your OPT EAD must list a job category matching Anthropic's posted role. Work with your DSO to confirm the Standard Occupational Classification code on your I-20 aligns with the position. Anthropic's HR team will complete I-9 verification and E-Verify enrollment confirmation before your start date.
How do I find out which Anthropic teams have sponsored work visas in the past?
Migrate Mate's employer search surfaces Labor Condition Application data by company and job title, showing where Anthropic has filed for H-1B and E-3 visa sponsorship. Reviewing this history before interviews helps you identify which teams have the most active sponsorship track record and focus your outreach accordingly.
Does Anthropic sponsor H-1B visas for OPT employees after their authorization expires?
Anthropic has an established H-1B sponsorship history across technical and research functions. OPT employees who transition to H-1B must be registered in USCIS's annual lottery, which opens each March for an October 1 start date. Raise this timeline with your manager and HR contact well before your OPT expiration.
How does Anthropic hire OPT students?
OPT is work authorization granted directly to F-1 students after graduation — no employer petition is required. Anthropic can hire OPT students as soon as their EAD card is approved. STEM degree holders can extend OPT by 24 months when their employer is enrolled in E-Verify. Most companies that hire OPT students also support the transition to H-1B when the student's OPT period is ending. Check Anthropic's individual postings on Migrate Mate to confirm OPT acceptance per role.