Anthropic

Cyber Evaluations Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Washington, DC

Posted 15 days ago

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This role has been open
15 days
Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 40 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
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Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
high
276 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
Hiring momentum
795 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Cyber Evaluations Engineer at Anthropic, you will be responsible for designing and conducting evaluations to assess the cyber-relevant capabilities and robustness of AI models. Your day-to-day tasks will include running safeguard-robustness testing, analyzing evaluation results, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance detection architectures against cyber misuse.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Experience building or running evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for software or ML systems, including delivering results on short, fixed timelines
  • Hands-on cybersecurity experience (e.g., CTF participation, vulnerability research, exploit development, or security research)
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Strong ability to communicate evaluation results with multiple cross-functional stakeholders or potential policy stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Deep offensive-security or security-research experience, including experience building AI security benchmarks
  • Experience analyzing adversarial or abuse data (e.g., jailbreaks, prompt bypasses, intrusion or fraud telemetry)
  • Experience working onsite with government partners on testing or evaluation engagements
  • Experience with AI/ML evaluation frameworks
  • Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure practices

What you get

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

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of the technology stack used in evaluations
  • Role involves significant collaboration with policy teams, which may require navigating complex regulatory environments
  • Visa sponsorship is available but not guaranteed for every role or candidate
  • Location-based hybrid policy requires at least 25% in-office presence

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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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