Data Scientist, API

About the role

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.

As an early member of our Data Science and Analytics team focusing on our API, you will play a critical role in driving the growth and optimization of Anthropic's API products that power thousands of developers and enterprises building with AI. You\'ll work at the intersection of product strategy, customer insights, and revenue optimization to help scale our API platform from millions to billions of API calls while maintaining our commitment to safety and reliability.

You will partner closely with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to understand developer and enterprise customer behavior, identify growth opportunities, and drive data-informed decisions that shape our API roadmap. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how AI is deployed at scale across industries while working with cutting-edge language models and developer tools.

Responsibilities

• API Product Analytics : Deep dive into API usage patterns, developer adoption funnels, and enterprise customer behavior to provide actionable insights that drive product strategy and feature prioritization
• Revenue & Retention Analysis : Analyze customer lifecycle metrics, revenue retention patterns, and usage-based billing dynamics to identify opportunities for growth and reduce churn across our API customer base
• Developer Experience Optimization : Design and analyze experiments to improve API adoption, reduce time-to-value for developers, and enhance the overall developer experience across our platform ecosystem
• Customer Segmentation & Insights : Build sophisticated models to segment API customers by use case, company size, and behavioral patterns to inform targeted product development and go-to-market strategies
• Cross-Platform Analysis : Analyze customer behavior across Anthropic's ecosystem (1P API, Bedrock, Vertex AI) to understand platform preferences, switching patterns, and optimization opportunities
• Experimentation & A / B Testing : Design, execute, and analyze controlled experiments on API features, pricing strategies, and developer onboarding flows to drive measurable improvements in key metrics
• Predictive Modeling : Develop models to forecast API usage, predict customer growth potential, and identify early signals of expansion or churn risk
• Enterprise Customer Intelligence : Partner with sales and customer success teams to analyze enterprise customer usage patterns, measure feature adoption, and provide insights that inform account strategy

You may be a good fit if you

Strong candidates may also have

The expected salary range for this position is :

$275,000 - $355,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements : We require at least a Bachelor\'s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we will make reasonable efforts to help with visa issues, and we retain an immigration lawyer to assist.

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. We value diverse perspectives and are committed to inclusive hiring.

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 large-scale research efforts and value impact toward steerable, trustworthy AI. We emphasize collaboration, frequent research discussions, and strong communication skills. Our current research directions include 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 with offices in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment.

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