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.

The Lead will work with our Product, Training, Security, and Safeguards teams to support their missions. The Lead will be responsible for all components of this vision. They will hire a world-class research team, lead them to produce frontier research on extremely quick timelines, maximize the public impact of that research, and build and deploy defenses into the world.

The lead will develop a compelling vision for a dramatically more secure future, and communicate it to the company, industry, researchers, and government. The lead will also be responsible for informing and making difficult decisions at the highest levels of the company – how to broadly distribute access to advanced capabilities, how to safeguard the model, what threats to focus on, what systems to harden, and what high-risk, high-reward research to take bets on.

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity research and development
• Strong background in machine learning and AI
• Ability to work independently and manage a team
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Skills

• Research and development in cybersecurity
• Understanding of advanced AI models and their applications
• Experience with cybersecurity defense strategies and technologies
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Benefits

Anthropic offers 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.

Pay

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

• Annual Salary $485,000 - $690,000 USD

Schedule

Location-based 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.