Lead, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

Details

Anthropic is forming a Frontier Red Team focused on researching and defending against the cybersecurity impacts of frontier AI models. This role will lead mission-driven research to uncover offensive and defensive capabilities of Claude and future models, prototype and deploy defenses, influence how models are trained and safeguarded, publish high-impact research, and engage with industry, researchers, and government. The Lead will hire and grow a world-class research team and make strategic decisions about threats, access, and high-risk research bets.

Responsibilities

• Own Anthropic’s defensive cybersecurity vision and strategy for frontier models
• Hire and lead a world-class research team of cybersecurity researchers and program managers
• Design and run an AGI cybersecurity research program to secure the world
• Lead the team to execute research at frontier lab scale, speed, and quality
• Collaborate with Product, Training, Security, and Safeguards teams to address major opportunities and challenges
• Identify and partner with field partners (maintainers, researchers, companies, governments) for joint projects
• Develop a strategy to publish and share research for maximum public impact and avoid low-impact work
• Translate technical findings into demonstrations and artifacts for policymakers and the public
• Proactively surface critical strategic decisions and marshal resources to address them

Sample Projects

• Writing strategy for how a frontier AI lab can use frontier models/resources to defend the world
• Building frameworks and tools enabling AI models to autonomously find and patch vulnerabilities
• Running purple-team simulations where AI defenders compete against AI attackers in network environments
• Pointing autonomous AI systems at real-world security challenges (bug bounties, CTFs) to characterize risks and defensive potential
• Building demonstrations of frontier AI cyber capabilities for policy stakeholders

Requirements

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or 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: Will correlate with internal job level requirements for the position (senior leadership level expected)
• Demonstrated expertise in offensive and defensive cybersecurity research, vulnerability and exploit research, and leading high-impact research programs
• Experience communicating technical findings to public, policy, and industry audiences and running large-scale, rapid research efforts

Compensation

• Annual salary range: $485,000 - $690,000 USD

Logistics

• Location: Role is based in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) with presence also in New York City (New York City, NY). Some travel expected (e.g., Washington, D.C.)
• Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to help, though not all roles/candidates may be eligible

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space for collaboration

How we work / Culture

• Emphasis on big, high-impact research efforts rather than many small projects
• Collaborative research discussions and strong communication skills valued
• Encouragement to apply even if candidates do not meet every listed qualification