Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reinforcement-learning environments.
• Develop novel approaches and realize them in code.
• Conduct experiments and evaluations.
• Deliver research into production training runs.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and cybersecurity specialists on defensive AI capabilities.

Requirements

• Experience in cybersecurity research.
• Experience with machine learning.
• Strong software-engineering skills.
• Ability to balance research exploration with engineering implementation.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.
• Strong candidates may have professional experience in security engineering, fuzzing, detection and response, CTF competitions, cyber ranges, academic cybersecurity research, RL techniques and environments, or LLM training methodologies.

Benefits

• Annual salary range of $500,000–$850,000 USD.
• Visa sponsorship is offered, subject to role and candidate eligibility and Anthropic’s ability to successfully sponsor the visa.
• Hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and collaborative office space.