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Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products

Anthropic· Engineering & Design - Product
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San Francisco, CA$405k - $485kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Research role on a product team focused on identifying, evaluating, and operationalizing security capabilities in frontier AI models for non-expert customers, with a strong emphasis on rapid prototyping, rigorous evaluation, and collaboration with engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Prototype rapidly to find define the AI frontier for cybersecurity work
  • Design evaluations that measure model performance on the work security teams actually do
  • Build the datasets, harnesses, and scoring those evaluations depend on
  • Engage with the cybersecurity community to help define where AI can make the most impact
  • Work with engineers and researchers to operationalize promising capabilities into something customers can rely on
  • Track how model capabilities for security are changing, and what that means for what we build next
  • Share findings that inform product direction, and partner with product leadership on priorities

Qualifications

  • Have deep expertise in one or more security domains, such as vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, incident response, or offensive security
  • Have built AI-powered tools or capabilities for security work
  • Can get from an idea to a working prototype quickly, and abandon the ones that don't hold up
  • Are comfortable designing rigorous evaluations and interpreting the results honestly
  • Can write and communicate clearly about technical findings
  • Have 7+ years of experience in security research, security engineering, or a closely related field

Skills

Required:Security domain expertise

Benefits

  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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