Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

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$111,944 national median

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

260% above the BLS national median for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber) San Francisco, CA About Anthropic Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Team The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI by understanding what these systems can do and building the defenses that matter. In 2026, we're focused on researching and ensuring safety with self-improving, highly autonomous AI systems, especially ones related to cyberphysical capabilities. See our previous related work on exploits , partnering with Mozilla , and zero days . This is early-stage, high-conviction research with the potential for outsized impact - Glasswing is one example. Note: We are exclusively hiring in SF. We support relocation, but all hires must relocate before starting. About the Role In the last year, we've seen compelling signs that LLMs and agents are increasingly capable of novel cyber capabilities. We think 2026 will be the year where models reach expert-level, even superhuman, in several cybersecurity domains. This is a novel and massive threat surface. As a Research Scientist on FRT focusing on cyber, you'll build the tools and frameworks needed to defend the world against advanced

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