Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)
Anthropic
Posted
Jan 25, 2026
Location
USA
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$350000 - $850000
Mission
What you will drive
- 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
Impact
The difference you'll make
Your work will inform decisions at the highest levels of the company, contribute to demonstrations that shape policy discourse, and build the technical defenses needed for a future of increasingly powerful AI systems, making the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- 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
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.