Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropics 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.

About the Team

The Security team protects Anthropics AI systems and maintains the trust of our users and society.

About the Role

At Anthropic we are pioneering new frontiers in AI that have the potential to greatly benefit society. However developing advanced AI also comes with risks if not properly safeguarded. As a Research Engineer youll help to safely advance the capabilities of our models in incident response security analysis vulnerability remediation and other areas of defensive cybersecurity.

This role blends research and engineering requiring you to both develop novel approaches and realize them in code. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments conducting experiments and evaluations delivering your work into production training runs and collaborating with other researchers engineers and cybersecurity specialists across and outside Anthropic.

This role requires ML experience combined with domain expertise in cybersecurity. You might be an ML researcher with a history of cybersecurity work or a security professional with a background in ML.

Responsibilities

• Partner with researchers and safety teams across Anthropic to understand their analytical needs and build solutions

• Develop agentic integrations that allow AI systems to autonomously investigate and act on analytical findings
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the team including decisions about what to build what to partner on and where to invest
• This role may require participation in an on-call rotation.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have experience with machine learning.
• Have experience in cybersecurity research.
• Have strong software engineering skills.
• Can balance research exploration with engineering implementation.
• Are passionate about AIs potential and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems.

Strong candidates may also have

• 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 or other experimental & research background.
• Familiarity with RL techniques and environments.
• Familiarity with LLM training methodologies.

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer 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. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.