Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Emerging Risks)

• Design and run research experiments to understand the emerging risks models may create
• Produce internal & external artifacts (research, products, demos, dashboards, tools) that communicate the state of model capabilities
• Shape product, safeguards, and training decisions based on what you find
• Work closely with Societal Impacts (SI) and Safeguards teams

This role creates positive change by researching and ensuring safety with self-improving, highly autonomous AI systems, making the entire world safer in this era of advanced AI by understanding what these systems can do and building the defenses that matter.

• Are a fast experimentalist who ships research quickly
• Have experience creating a research program from scratch
• Are thoughtful about humanity's adaptation to powerful AI systems in our economy and society
• Can communicate thoughtfully in written + spoken form with a wide range of stakeholders
• Can scope ambiguous research questions into tractable first projects

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 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.