Cyber Evaluations Engineer

Anthropic•Washington, DC

12d•$300,000 - $405,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking Cyber Evaluations Engineers to develop and execute evaluations that assess the cyber-relevant capabilities and robustness of their AI models. This role involves designing new evaluation methods, conducting per-release robustness testing, and analyzing data related to jailbreaks and prompt bypasses to understand the effectiveness of safeguards. The engineer will also design probes to detect cyber abuse in production and collaborate with the policy team to shape the overall detection architecture. Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company is a rapidly growing team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders dedicated to this mission.

Requirements

Experience building or running evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for software or ML systems, including delivering results on short, fixed timelines
Hands-on cybersecurity experience (e.g., CTF participation, vulnerability research, exploit development, or security research)
Proficiency in Python
Strong ability to communicate evaluation results with multiple cross-functional stakeholders or potential policy stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Deep offensive-security or security-research experience, including experience building AI security benchmarks
Experience analyzing adversarial or abuse data (e.g., jailbreaks, prompt bypasses, intrusion or fraud telemetry)
Experience working onsite with government partners on testing or evaluation engagements
Experience with AI/ML evaluation frameworks
Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure practices
Experience testing pre-release or pre-deployment software or models under confidentiality constraints
Experience authoring detection content (e.g., Sigma, YARA, Suricata, SIEM rules) or building ML-based abuse detection
Active secret security clearance or higher, or eligibility to obtain one

Responsibilities

Design and run capability, uplift, and safety evaluations to assess cyber-relevant risk in new models
Execute per-release safeguard-robustness testing ahead of major model launches
Analyze evaluation results and communicate findings clearly to the team and to stakeholders
Design, prototype, and tune detection probes for cyber misuse
Work with the cyber policy team to turn policy lines into a layered, robust abuse-detection architecture, and measure its precision and coverage over time
Build and maintain internal tooling used to run and score evaluations
Collaborate with policy and engineering partners to translate eval findings into safeguard improvements