SINGAPORE - Anthropic, the San Francisco-based research firm behind the popular artificial intelligence tool Claude, is looking to set up a presence in Singapore.

On June 4, the careers page on its website advertised four open positions here that span finance, product support and economic research.

Its international expansion into Singapore follows similar moves made by the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, which have set up labs here to support AI adoption within the local industry and accelerate development of frontier AI models.

One of the positions advertised on Anthropic’s website is Asia-Pacific head of accounting to build and run its regional corporate accounting function.

This new role will report to the head of international accounting in the firm’s Dublin office. This individual in Singapore will build and lead a regional accounting and finance operations team across multiple Asia-Pacific locations.

Anthropic, which has Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC as one of its major financial backers, has also advertised for two product support specialist positions. They will be expected to become experts in Anthropic’s product range and respond to user support cases.

The firm is also looking to hire a regional research economist, who is expected to work with governments, academics, and industry partners to measure and understand AI’s effects on the economy, and explore research-driven policy interventions.

This individual must have a PhD in Economics, with a strong track record of empirical research, particularly studies combining novel data sources and economic theory or those implementing frontier methods in causal inference and machine learning. The candidate must also have technical skills, including proficiency in Python programming.

The successful ...