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date: "2026-11-02"
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As of: 2026-11-09 21:13 CET.
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# Anthropic opens applications for the Anthropic Residency, a paid research residency for professors, founders and staff engineers with no ML background required

On Nov 2, 2026 Anthropic opened applications (until Nov 22) for the Anthropic Residency: six-week, three-month or six-month paid placements at $350k-$500k a year equivalent, with a mentor and frontier-model compute, for established technical people who need no ML background. The X announcement passed 8.3M views.

## Key facts
- Durations: 6 weeks, 3 months or 6 months; pay $350,000-$500,000 per year equivalent
- San Francisco preferred; remote possible mainly for shorter placements; separate US and UK postings
- Areas: AI safety and alignment, security and frontier red-teaming, ML systems and RL
- Deadline: Nov 22, 2026
- @AnthropicAI announcement: ~8.39M views (fxtwitter, Nov 3)

## What happened

See summary. The page does not say how many residents will be taken.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 186 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 125 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 216 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 155 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Anthropic: Anthropic Residency](https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/anthropic-residency/) (alignment.anthropic.com, official)
2. [@AnthropicAI on X (Nov 2)](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2117343929960112486) (x.com, official)

## Changes

- 2026-11-03 (filed): Created

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