MP
$300,000 – $405,000
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What this role is
Anthropic is seeking an engineer to design and execute security evaluations for AI systems, focusing on detecting cyber misuse and measuring safeguard robustness. This role suits someone with hands-on security research experience who enjoys translating policy requirements into detection systems and analyzing adversarial attack patterns.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience building or running evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for software or ML systems
- Hands-on cybersecurity experience such as CTF participation, vulnerability research, exploit development, or security research
- Proficiency in Python
- Ability to communicate evaluation results to cross-functional stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and professional experience
Nice to have
- Deep offensive-security or security-research experience including AI security benchmarks
- Experience analyzing adversarial or abuse data like jailbreaks or prompt bypasses
- Experience working onsite with government partners on testing or evaluation engagements
- Experience with AI/ML evaluation frameworks
- Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure practices
- Experience testing pre-release or pre-deployment software or models under confidentiality constraints
- Experience authoring detection content or building ML-based abuse detection
- Active secret security clearance or eligibility to obtain one