AI Safety & Governance Full-time

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.

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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.