Research Engineer – Cybersecurity RL
Anthropic
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Job Description
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society. The team consists of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build advanced AI systems.
About Horizons
The Horizons team drives Anthropic's reinforcement learning (RL) research and development. They have a significant impact on Claude releases and are responsible for advancing autonomy, coding, and reasoning capabilities.
About the Role
As a Research Engineer on the Cybersecurity RL team, you will blend research and engineering to advance our models' secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and defensive cybersecurity capabilities. Your responsibilities include designing and implementing RL environments, conducting rigorous experiments and evaluations, integrating work into production training runs, and collaborating with researchers, engineers, and cybersecurity specialists.
Who You Are
- Experienced in cybersecurity research and machine learning.
- Proficient in software engineering with a balance of research and implementation.
- Passionate about developing safe and beneficial AI systems.
Additional Qualifications
Strong candidates may have professional security engineering experience, participation in CTF competitions or cyber ranges, academic research in cybersecurity, and familiarity with RL techniques and LLM training methodologies.
Compensation & Logistics
The annual salary range for this role is USD 300,000 to USD 405,000. A minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required. This is a location-based hybrid role with a requirement to be in the office at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available for selected candidates.
How We're Different
Anthropic emphasizes big science in AI research, operating as a cohesive team focused on high-impact projects. Communication and collaborative research discussions are highly valued.
Join Us
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco offering competitive compensation, benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment.
Key skills/competency
- Cybersecurity research
- Machine learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Secure coding
- Vulnerability remediation
- Software engineering
- Defensive cybersecurity
- CTF competitions
- LLM training
- Risk assessment
How to Get Hired at Anthropic
- Customize your resume: Highlight cybersecurity and RL projects.
- Research Anthropic: Understand their AI mission and research impact.
- Prepare your portfolio: Showcase secure coding and experimental work.
- Practice interview questions: Focus on technical and behavioral insights.
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