Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Hardware Lead)
Anthropic
Posted
Jan 25, 2026
Location
USA
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$850000 - $850000
Mission
What you will drive
- Design and build systems that interface Claude with diverse hardware platformsโrobotics and other cyberphysical systems
- Develop some of the first comprehensive evals for hardware-enabled frontier models
- Build training environments for desirable model behavior
- Create demonstrations that characterize cyberphysical capabilities and inform policymakers and the public
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.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- Have experience building evaluation pipelines for LLMs
- Have deep experience with robotics or other cyberphysical systems
- Have strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python
- Have experience building and working with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems
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 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.