Lead, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is forming a new team focused on steering the world through the next generation of cybersecurity, researching the impacts of advanced AI models on security, publishing this research, and building and deploying necessary defenses. This team is a high-priority initiative within the Frontier Red Team, which studies catastrophic risks and advocates for defenses. The role involves researching offensive and defensive capabilities of AI models like Claude, prototyping defenses, informing AI training and safeguarding to favor defenders, and engaging with the public and government to ensure defenders have a permanent advantage. The Lead will develop a vision for a secure future, communicate it to various stakeholders, and make high-level decisions regarding AI capability distribution, model safeguarding, threat focus, system hardening, and research investments. The role requires building and leading a world-class research team, producing frontier research on quick timelines, maximizing research impact, and deploying defenses.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Nice To Haves

Experience with frontier AI models
Experience with cybersecurity research
Experience publishing research
Experience building and deploying defenses
Experience engaging with public and government stakeholders
Experience leading research teams

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