# Lead, Frontier Red Team

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $485k – $690k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Cybersecurity, vulnerability research, exploit development, ai safety, purple teaming, bug bounties, ctf, policy engagement, research leadership, Strategic Planning, Python, LLMs
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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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