All Content from Business Insider | Workday exec trades CTO title for 'member of technical staff' role at Anthropic by Lloyd Lee
Some top-level employees are ditching their posts at large companies to join frontier AI labs like Anthropic for a "member of technical staff" position, a blurrier title that can bring greater flexibility and high pay.Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images
A Workday CTO left his post after less than a year to join Anthropic's technical staff team.Though not an "executive" title, a "member of technical staff" can bring high pay and prestige in AI.Frontier AI labs are using flatter, more fluid labels.The AI era is elevating a flatter, broader "member of technical staff" role into one of the more prestigious jobs in tech.
In March, Anthropic hired Peter Bailis as a member of technical staff less than a year after he joined Workday as its chief technology officer. Workday's president of product and technology, Gerrit Kazmaier, said at the time of hiring that Bailis would be part of the HR company's initiative to go "all in" on AI.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/workday-cto-trades-title-member-of-technical-staff-anthropic-openai-2026-4
#ai #anthropic #workday #openai