Lead Anthropic's Frontier Red Team (Cyber) to develop defensive cybersecurity strategies and research using frontier AI models like Claude. Hire and direct a world-class team on high-impact projects including autonomous vuln finding/patching, purple-team AI simulations, and policy demonstrations while shaping company-wide AI security decisions.
485k – 690k/yr
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About the role
Responsibilities
Be responsible for Anthropic’s overall defensive cybersecurity vision.
Hire and lead a world-class research team of AGI-pilled cybersecurity researchers and program managers.
Design an AGI cybersecurity research program that aims to secure the world.
Lead the team to execute on this research at the scale, speed, and quality of a frontier lab.
Work with other Anthropic teams, such as Training, Safeguards, and Policy, to address their biggest opportunities and challenges in Anthropic’s cybersecurity mission.
Identify field partners – maintainers, researchers, companies, governments – to do joint projects with.
Develop a strategy to publish and share research with the world for maximum impact; shut down and avoid low-impact research or research communication.
Translate technical findings into compelling demonstrations and artifacts that inform policymakers and the public.
Proactively identify critical strategic decisions for the company and the AI lab ecosystem, raise them, marshall resources to address them, and help the decisions be made as smoothly as possible.
Sample Projects
Writing the strategy for how a frontier AI lab can use frontier models and resources to most defend the world.
Building frameworks and tools that enable AI models to autonomously find and patch vulnerabilities using tens of trillions of tokens.
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 etc.) to characterize risks, defensive potential, and compare to human experts.
Building demonstrations of frontier AI cyber capabilities for policy stakeholders.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position (Lead / senior leadership role).
Ability to lead high-impact research on catastrophic risks in cybersecurity with frontier AI models.
Experience in cybersecurity research, particularly offensive/defensive capabilities, vulnerability research, exploits, and AI applications to security.
Strong strategic vision for defensive cybersecurity in the age of advanced AI.
Excellent communication skills to engage with public, government, policymakers, and internal teams.
Nice-to-Haves
Prior work on projects similar to Mythos, N-days, exploits, 0-day research, vulnerability finding in hardened codebases, or Project Glasswing.
Experience leading research teams at frontier labs or equivalent.
Background in AGI-related cybersecurity or AI safety.
Ability to travel (role based in San Francisco with expected travel to Washington DC).
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