Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)

• Design and build autonomous AI systems that can use tools and operate across diverse environments—creating model organisms that help us understand and defend against advanced adversarial AI
• Create evals and training environments to understand and shape agent behavior in desirable ways
• Develop defensive agents that can detect, disrupt, or outcompete adversarial AI systems in realistic scenarios
• Interface Claude with hardware platforms (e.g. robotics, physical systems) to understand cyberphysical risks and defenses
• Translate technical findings into compelling demonstrations and artifacts that inform policymakers and the public
• Collaborate with external experts in cybersecurity, national security, and AI safety to scope and validate research directions

Your work will inform decisions at the highest levels of the company, contribute to public demonstrations that shape policy discourse, and help build technical defenses that could matter enormously as AI systems become more capable.

• Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python
• Experience building and working with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems
• Driven to find solutions to ambiguously scoped, high-stakes problems
• Design and run experiments quickly, iterating fast toward useful results
• Thrive in collaborative environments (we love pair programming!)
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your work to have real-world impact on how humanity navigates advanced AI
• Can own entire problems end-to-end, including both technical and non-technical components
• Are comfortable working on sensitive projects that require discretion and integrity

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.

Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.