Anthropic

Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)

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2 months ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with researchers and safety teams to understand analytical needs and build solutions.
  • Develop agentic integrations that allow AI systems to autonomously investigate and act on analytical findings.
  • Design and implement reinforcement learning environments.
  • Conduct experiments and evaluations and deliver work into production training runs.
  • Contribute to strategic decisions about what to build, partnerships, and investment priorities.
  • Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and cybersecurity specialists across and outside Anthropic.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation when required.

Requirements

  • Experience with machine learning.
  • Experience in cybersecurity research.
  • Strong software engineering skills.
  • Ability to balance research exploration with engineering implementation.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
  • Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include professional experience in security engineering, fuzzing, detection and response, or other applied defensive work.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience participating in or building CTF competitions and cyber ranges.
  • Preferred qualifications include academic cybersecurity research or other experimental and research experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include familiarity with reinforcement learning techniques and environments.
  • Preferred qualifications include familiarity with LLM training methodologies.

Benefits

  • Anthropic sponsors visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa if an offer is made, though sponsorship is not successful for every role or candidate.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Lovely office space for collaboration.
  • Hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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