Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Hardware Lead)
Anthropic
Location
USA
Type
Full-time
Posted
Jan 25, 2026
Compensation
USD 200000 – 200000
Mission
What you will drive
- Design and build systems that interface Claude with diverse hardware platforms—robotics and other cyberphysical systems
- Develop some of the first comprehensive evals for hardware-enabled frontier models and build training environments for desirable model behavior
- Create demonstrations that characterize cyberphysical capabilities and inform policymakers and the public
- Own the technical roadmap for hardware research within the Frontier Red Team and collaborate with external experts to scope and validate research directions
Impact
The difference you'll make
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, making the entire world safer in this era of advanced AI.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- Deep experience with robotics or other cyberphysical systems and strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python
- Experience building and working with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems
- Ability to design and run experiments quickly, iterate fast toward useful results, and own entire problems end-to-end
- Driven to find solutions to ambiguously scoped, high-stakes problems and care deeply about AI safety
Benefits
What's in it for you
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.
About
Inside Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole, working as a cohesive team on large-scale research efforts.