Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

Core responsibilities:

• Develop systems, tools, and frameworks for AI-empowered cybersecurity, such as autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation, malware detection and management, network hardening, and pentesting
• Design and run experiments to elicit and evaluate autonomous AI cyber capabilities in realistic scenarios
• Design and build infrastructure for evaluating and enabling AI systems to operate in security environments
• Translate technical findings into compelling demonstrations and artifacts that inform policymakers and the public

This role creates positive change by building the tools and frameworks needed to defend the world against advanced AI-enabled cyber threats, directly shaping how Anthropic and the world prepare for AI-enabled cyber threats and contributing to demonstrations that shape policy discourse.

Required qualifications:

• Deep expertise in cybersecurity or security research
• Experience doing technical research with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems
• Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python
• Ability to own entire problems end-to-end, including both technical and non-technical components

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's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, aiming to make AI safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole.