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Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic
The Cybersecurity RL team within Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer to advance the capabilities of AI models in secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and defensive cybersecurity. This role combines research and engineering, requiring the design and implementation of RL environments, conducting experiments, delivering work into production training runs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have domain expertise in cybersecurity and an interest or experience in training safe AI models, potentially coming from backgrounds like white hat hacking, security engineering, or detection and response.
Engineering Manager, Safeguards Review Tooling
Anthropic
Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Review Tooling team, which is responsible for building systems that help humans and AI investigate potential harms and take enforcement actions across Anthropic's products. This foundational role involves owning the tools safety investigators rely on, including analytics, privacy-preserving primitives, and a sandbox environment for rapid iteration. The manager will also drive the strategy for scaling review through automation, enabling Claude to extend human reviewer capabilities while keeping people in the loop for critical judgment. This position requires close collaboration with policy, operations, data science, and legal teams to ensure effective, accurate, and trustworthy enforcement systems.
Research Economist, Economic Research
Anthropic
As an Economist at Anthropic, you will play a crucial role in measuring and understanding the profound effects of AI on the global economy. You will lead the development of the Anthropic Economic Index, establishing innovative methodologies to track AI's usage, diffusion, and impact using privacy-preserving tools and unique data sources. This role requires applying frontier methods in econometrics, machine learning, and structural estimation to drive significant impact, influencing both external policy discussions and Anthropic's internal business and product strategies. Our team focuses on rigorous empirical methods and novel measurement approaches, building datasets that analyze AI's influence on labor markets, productivity, and economic transformation.
Technical Deployment Lead
Anthropic
As a Technical Deployment Lead on the Claude Agentic Solutions team, you will lead the delivery of custom AI agent solutions for enterprise customers in highly regulated industries. You'll own high-value engagements where we collaborate directly with customers to build and deploy agents into their most critical business processes. This is a founding team role where you will help build technical playbooks and define processes for scaling this emerging motion. You will champion our mission, ensure world-class delivery, and bring insights back to our product and research teams. You'll own engagements end-to-end, from SOW through production deployment, working alongside Forward Deployed Engineers while owning product scoping, stakeholder management, value measurement, and the organizational complexity of deploying AI agents in enterprise environments. You need to be technical enough for architecture conversations and polished enough for executive briefings.
$25k - $50k
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The Interpretability team focuses on mechanistic interpretability, aiming to reverse engineer how trained models work by discovering how neural network parameters map to meaningful algorithms. This role supports a team of expert researchers and engineers dedicated to understanding the internal workings of large language models at a deep, mechanistic level. The manager will play a critical role in ensuring the team meets its ambitious safety research goals by partnering with an individual contributor research lead to drive team success, translate research ideas into tangible goals, and oversee execution. Responsibilities include managing team execution, careers, performance, facilitating inter-team relationships, and driving the hiring pipeline.
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Anthropic
The Interpretability team at Anthropic is dedicated to understanding how large language models work, believing that a mechanistic understanding is key to making advanced AI systems safe and reliable. This role involves building and maintaining the specialized infrastructure for interpretability research, akin to performing 'neuroscience' on neural networks. The work spans the entire lifecycle of a production language model, from pretraining and inference to performance optimization, pushing the boundaries of hardware and software to address critical bottlenecks. As interpretability research matures and is applied to safety audits on frontier models, engineering and infrastructure have become crucial, making this role directly impactful on one of AI's most significant open problems.
Research Scientist, Interpretability
Anthropic
The Interpretability team at Anthropic is dedicated to reverse-engineering how trained language models work, believing that a deep mechanistic understanding is crucial for ensuring the safety of advanced AI systems. This role focuses on mechanistic interpretability, aiming to map neural network parameters to meaningful algorithms, akin to performing 'biology' or 'neuroscience' on neural networks. The team's work involves developing tools and methods to understand complex models, addressing challenges like 'superposition' and decomposing models into interpretable components. Collaborations with other Anthropic teams, such as Alignment Science and Societal Impacts, are integral to applying this research to enhance AI safety.
Software Engineer, Research Tools
Anthropic
Anthropic's research teams are pushing the boundaries of AI safety and capability research, and they need exceptional tools to do their best work. As a Software Engineer on the Research Tools team, you'll build the infrastructure and applications that enable our researchers to iterate quickly, run complex experiments, and extract insights from frontier AI systems. This role sits at the intersection of product thinking and full-stack engineering. You'll work directly with researchers and engineers to deeply understand their workflows, identify bottlenecks, and rapidly ship solutions that multiply their productivity. Whether you're building human feedback interfaces for model evaluation, creating platforms for experiment orchestration, or developing novel visualization tools for understanding model behavior, your work will directly accelerate our mission to build safe, reliable AI systems. We're looking for someone who can operate with high agency in an ambiguous environment—someone who can be dropped into a research team, quickly develop domain expertise, and independently drive impactful projects from conception to delivery.
Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Anthropic
Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Detection and Response engineer to build solutions for monitoring threats, investigating incidents, and coordinating response efforts. This role offers the opportunity to shape security capabilities from the ground up alongside world-class research and security teams. The ideal candidate will be at the forefront of safeguarding advanced AI systems.
Technical Program Manager, Security
Anthropic
Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to be safe and beneficial for users and society. As a Technical Program Manager for Security, you will lead the execution of critical programs spanning security engineering, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams. This role is responsible for developing and implementing technical security programs that align with Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy and enhance the company's security posture amidst rapid growth. You will operate at the intersection of Security Engineering, Compliance, Infrastructure, Product, Research, and Policy, requiring adaptability, sound judgment under pressure, and the ability to translate complex security needs into actionable plans with tight deadlines.
Product Support Specialist
Anthropic
As a Product Support Specialist, you will be at the forefront of safely deploying AI to the world. Your daily tasks will involve responding to, investigating, and tracking user needs. You will also play a key role in identifying and addressing gaps in our team's technical knowledge, providing high-level support to important customers, and demonstrating a strong commitment to scaling our customer support processes effectively.
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Anthropic
We are seeking an Engineering Manager, GRC to join our GRC organization and build the technical foundation for how we scale our risk and compliance programs. In this role, you will lead the team that designs and implements automated workflows, data pipelines, and integrations that transform manual compliance processes into scalable engineering systems. This is a greenfield opportunity to establish the team, architecture, and integrations that will define how we approach governance, risk, and compliance at Anthropic. The core challenge is a data problem: compliance information lives across dozens of systems—cloud infrastructure, identity providers, HR platforms, ticketing tools, code repositories—and your job is to design systems that bring it together, normalize it, and make it actionable. Success in this role comes from understanding how systems connect and how data flows between them. At Anthropic, you'll also have a unique advantage: the ability to design AI-powered workflows where Claude acts as an extension of your team, handling tasks that would traditionally require additional headcount or manual effort. You'll need ingenuity to identify where agentic AI can accelerate evidence collection, interpret unstructured data, triage compliance gaps, and augment human judgment in risk assessments. Working closely with Security, IT, and Engineering teams, you'll translate compliance and regulatory requirements into solutions that support audit programs including SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, and FedRAMP, building systems that combine traditional automation with AI capabilities to achieve scale that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic
Anthropic is seeking ML Engineers and Research Engineers to join the Safeguards ML team. The primary focus of this role is to develop systems that detect and mitigate misuse of AI systems, ranging from individual policy violations to sophisticated coordinated attacks. You will build defenses to ensure product safety as AI capabilities advance, protect user well-being, and guarantee appropriate model behavior across various contexts. This work is crucial for Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy commitments.
Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic
Anthropic is seeking software engineers to develop safety and oversight mechanisms for their AI systems. This role focuses on building systems to detect unwanted model behaviors, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being, enforcing terms of service and acceptable use policies. You will apply your technical skills to uphold principles of safety, transparency, and oversight.
Research Engineer, RL Engineering
Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. As an ML Systems Engineer on the Reinforcement Learning Engineering team, you will build and improve the critical algorithms and infrastructure that researchers use to train AI models like Claude. Your work will directly enable breakthroughs in AI capabilities and safety, focusing on enhancing the performance, robustness, and usability of these systems to accelerate research progress. You will support and empower the research team in their mission to build beneficial AI systems, specifically by building, maintaining, and improving the algorithms and systems used for finetuning production and research models with methods like RLHF.
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling
Anthropic
Anthropic's ML Performance and Scaling team is responsible for training the company's production pretrained models, a critical function that directly shapes the future of Anthropic and its mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems. As a Research Engineer on this team, you will ensure that frontier models train reliably, efficiently, and at scale. This role bridges the gap between research and engineering, involving work across the entire production training stack, including performance optimization, hardware debugging, experimental design, and launch coordination. During model launches, the team operates in close collaboration, addressing production issues that require immediate attention.
Research Engineer, Discovery
Anthropic
As a Research Engineer on our team, you will work end-to-end across the entire model stack, identifying and addressing key infrastructure blockers on the path to scientific AGI. You should have familiarity with elements of language model training, evaluation, and inference, and be eager to quickly dive into and get up to speed in areas where you are not yet an expert. This may include performance optimization, distributed systems, VM/sandboxing/container deployment, and large-scale data pipelines. Join us in our mission to develop advanced AI systems that push the frontiers of science and benefit humanity.
Performance Engineer, GPU
Anthropic
Pioneering the next generation of AI requires breakthrough innovations in GPU performance and systems engineering. As a GPU Performance Engineer, you'll architect and implement the foundational systems that power Claude and push the frontiers of what's possible with large language models. You'll be responsible for maximizing GPU utilization and performance at unprecedented scale, developing cutting-edge optimizations that directly enable new model capabilities and dramatically improve inference efficiency. Working at the intersection of hardware and software, you'll implement state-of-the-art techniques from custom kernel development to distributed system architectures. Your work will span the entire stack—from low-level tensor core optimizations to orchestrating thousands of GPUs in perfect synchronization. Strong candidates will have a track record of delivering transformative GPU performance improvements in production ML systems and will be excited to shape the future of AI infrastructure alongside world-class researchers and engineers.
Senior Software Security Engineer
Anthropic
Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for users and society. The Security Engineering team is crucial in protecting these AI systems and maintaining user trust. This role involves defining authentication architecture, designing cryptographic foundations for model weights and training data, and leading the developer security program. The team collaborates across identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks, with opportunities to contribute across these areas based on strengths and priorities.
TPU Kernel Engineer
Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. As a TPU Kernel Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across various ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant part of this role involves designing and optimizing kernels specifically for the TPU, and providing feedback to researchers on how model changes affect performance. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in solving large-scale systems problems and performing low-level optimizations.