Anthropic
Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)
About this role
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team seeks a Research Engineer/Scientist to develop AI-powered cybersecurity defenses and evaluate advanced AI cyber capabilities. You'll build tools and frameworks to protect against AI-enabled threats, design experiments with autonomous systems, and produce policy-informing research on frontier AI risks in cyberspace.
What you'll do
- Develop systems and tools for AI-powered vulnerability discovery, malware detection, and network security
- Design and conduct experiments to evaluate autonomous AI capabilities in realistic cybersecurity scenarios
- Build infrastructure for testing AI systems in security-focused environments
- Create technical demonstrations and artifacts for policymakers and public stakeholders
- Collaborate with external cybersecurity and national security experts to validate research
- Lead research strategy, roadmap definition, and cross-functional partnerships (senior candidates)
What they're looking for
- Cybersecurity and security research expertise
- Python software engineering
- LLM-based agents and autonomous systems research
- Experiment design and rapid iteration
- Offensive security, vulnerability research, or exploit development
- Cross-functional leadership and communication
- Technical problem-solving and end-to-end ownership
- Discretion and integrity with sensitive work
Benefits
- Relocation support (SF-based role)
- Work on high-impact AI safety research with real-world policy influence
- Collaboration with leading AI safety and cybersecurity experts
- Opportunity to shape Anthropic's cyberdefense research program (senior roles)
- Access to frontier AI systems and research infrastructure
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Anthropic
Anthropic builds Claude, an AI assistant, and is hiring for engineering roles across infrastructure, data systems, and security that support both AI research operations and the company's internal technology needs. The company seeks infrastructure engineers, systems integrators, data scientists, and security specialists to build production-scale systems for training data pipelines, financial operations, developer productivity measurement, research infrastructure, and server firmware security.
- Website
- anthropic.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about your most significant cybersecurity research project or vulnerability discovery. What made it technically challenging and what was your role?
- Describe your experience working with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems. How did you design experiments to evaluate their capabilities?