Research Engineer Frontier Red Team RSP Evaluations
Research Engineer Frontier Red Team RSP Evaluations
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$ 280000 - 425000
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About Anthropic
Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the Role
Were building a team to develop and run gold standard evaluations for catastrophic risks to make sure we release models that are safe for the world to use.This work is at the core of implementing our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) which defines the technical and operational measures for safely training and deploying frontier AI models.
As a Research Engineer on the Frontier Red Team youll be creating evaluation systems that will help us understand and control some of the most capable AI systems ever built. You will collaborate with domain experts across multiple workstreams including biosecurity autonomous replication cybersecurity and national security. Youll build scale and run evaluations to measure dangerous capabilities in models and determine if and when they cross ASL thresholds and require heightened security measures. Your work will directly inform decisions at the highest levels of the company and help establish standards that could influence the entire AI industry.
We are looking for engineers who can execute rapidly maintain high throughput and bring a strong builder mindset to solving complex problems. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly prototype and iterate on evaluation infrastructure while maintaining high engineering standards. Youll be building systems to evaluate capabilities that have never existed before requiring creative solutions and rigorous implementation.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust evaluation infrastructure to measure model capabilities and risks across multiple domains
- Lead technical projects to build and scale evaluation systems that could become industry standards
- Collaborate with domain experts to translate their insights into concrete evaluation frameworks
- Build sandboxed testing environments and automated pipelines for continuous model assessment
- Work closely with researchers to rapidly prototype and iterate on new evaluation approaches
- Partner with crossfunctional teams to advance Anthropics safety mission
- Contribute to Capability Reports that inform critical deployment decisions
You may be a good fit if you
- Have led and conducted fast iterative experiments with frontier AI models
- Have designed or implemented evaluations that involve sampling prompting LLMs
- Write clean wellstructured code that others can build upon
- Care deeply about AI safety and responsible development
- Have strong software engineering skills with extensive Python experience
- Have experience working with distributed systems
- Are comfortable defining technical specifications and executing towards them
- Are a selfstarter who thrives in fastpaced collaborative environments
- Are excited about tackling unprecedented technical challenges
- Can balance the urgency of our mission with careful methodical implementation
Strong candidates may also have
- Experience working on sensitive or securitycritical projects
- Understanding of AI safety concepts and concerns
- Background in one or more relevant domains (biosecurity cybersecurity and others)
Representative Projects
- Build infrastructure for running largescale model evaluations across multiple risk domains
- Create tools for rapid evaluation prototyping and iteration
- Contribute to evaluation frameworks that could become industry standards
- Design and implement custom testing environments for specific capability assessments
- Develop monitoring and analysis systems for evaluation results
- Collaborate with domain experts to translate theoretical risks into practical tests such as cyber ranges and autonomous replication environments
Candidates need not have
- Domain expertise in specific risk areas
- 100 of the skills needed to perform the job
- Prior experience with AI model evaluation
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$280000 $425000 USD
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Locationbased hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25 of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How were different
We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highestimpact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT3 CircuitBased Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Employment Type
Full Time
