Lead, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

About the role

The Lead will oversee all of Anthropic’s mission-driven research on defending the world in an era of advanced cybersecurity capabilities. They will lead research to uncover the offensive and defensive capabilities of Claude, prototype defenses in the wild, inform how Claude is trained and safeguarded in order to favor defenders, and engage with the public and government.

The Lead will, over the long run, focus on how to give defenders a permanent advantage. Done well, within a year we expect Mythos, Glasswing, and our vulnerability and exploit research to seem like a modest first step towards this vision. They will work with our Product, Training, Security, and Safeguards teams to support their missions.

• Develop a compelling vision for a dramatically more secure future, and communicate it to the company, industry, researchers, and government.
• 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.

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

Qualifications

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