Research Engineer, Cybersecurity

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

The Security team protects Anthropic's AI systems and maintains the trust of our users and society. As a Research Engineer on the team, you'll help safely advance the capabilities of our models in secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and other areas of defensive cybersecurity.

This role blends research and engineering. You'll develop new approaches and build them in code. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments, running experiments and evaluations, delivering your work into production training runs, and working with researchers, engineers, and cybersecurity specialists both inside and outside Anthropic.

The role asks for domain expertise in cybersecurity paired with interest or experience in training safe AI models. You might be a security researcher curious about how LLMs could change your work, a security engineer interested in how AI could help harden systems at scale, or a detection and response professional wondering how models could improve defensive workflows.

• Design, build, and maintain RL environments and evaluations that measure and improve model capabilities in secure coding, vulnerability discovery and remediation, and other defensive security tasks

• Run experiments to develop and test new training approaches, and deliver successful results into production training runs

• Partner with researchers, engineers, and security specialists across Anthropic to understand where AI can strengthen defensive workflows, and build toward those needs

• Work with external cybersecurity experts and organizations to ground environments and evaluations in realistic defensive work

• Contribute to the strategic direction of the team, including decisions about what to build, what to partner on, and where to invest

• Participate in an on-call rotation as needed

• Experience in cybersecurity research or applied security work

• Experience with machine learning

• Ability to balance research exploration with engineering implementation

• Care about AI's potential and are committed to developing safe and beneficial systems

• Professional experience in security engineering, fuzzing, detection and response, or other applied defensive work

• Experience participating in or building CTF competitions and cyber ranges

• Academic research experience in cybersecurity

• Familiarity with RL techniques and environments

• Familiarity with LLM training methodologies

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we