Cyber Evaluations Engineer

Anthropic$300K — $405K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience building or running evaluations for software or ML systems on fixed timelines.
  • Hands-on cybersecurity background, including vulnerability research or exploit development.
  • Proficiency in Python programming and scripting.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying evaluation results to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience analyzing adversarial or abuse data is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute evaluations to assess cyber-relevant risks in models.
  • Conduct safeguard-robustness testing before major model releases.
  • Analyze and report on evaluation results for stakeholders.
  • Develop and fine-tune detection probes for cyber misuses.
  • Collaborate with policy teams to implement robust abuse-detection architectures.
  • Build tools to facilitate and score evaluations.
  • Translate evaluation insights into actionable safeguard enhancements.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates.
  • Hybrid work policy, requiring in-office presence 25% of the time.
  • Encouragement for underrepresented candidates to apply, fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
Full Job Description
We're hiring Cyber Evaluations Engineers to build and run the evaluations that measure cyber-relevant capabilities and safeguard robustness in our models. You'll design new evals, run per-release robustness testing, and dig into data on jailbreaks and prompt bypasses to understand where our safeguards hold up and where they don't. You'll also design many of the probes that detect cyber abuse in production and help shape the overall detection architecture alongside the policy team. Key responsibilities • Design and run capability, uplift, and safety evaluations to assess cyber-relevant risk in new models • Execute per-release safeguard-robustness testing ahead of major model launches • Analyze evaluation results and communicate findings clearly to the team and to stakeholders • Design, prototype, and tune detection probes for cyber misuse • Work with the cyber policy team to turn policy lines into a layered, robust abuse-detection architecture, and measure its precision and coverage over time • Build and maintain internal tooling used to run and score evaluations • Collaborate with policy and engineering partners to translate eval findings into safeguard improvements Minimum qualifications • Experience building or running evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for software or ML systems, including delivering results on short, fixed timelines • Hands-on cybersecurity experience (e.g., CTF participation, vulnerability research, exploit development, or security research) • Proficiency in Python • Strong ability to communicate evaluation results with multiple cross-functional stakeholders or potential policy stakeholders Preferred qualifications • Deep offensive-security or security-research experience, including experience building AI security benchmarks • Experience analyzing adversarial or abuse data (e.g., jailbreaks, prompt bypasses, intrusion or fraud telemetry) • Experience working onsite with government partners on testing or evaluation engagements • Experience with AI/ML evaluation frameworks • Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure practices • Experience testing pre-release or pre-deployment software or models under confidentiality constraints • Experience authoring detection content (e.g., Sigma, YARA, Suricata, SIEM rules) or building ML-based abuse detection • Active secret security clearance or higher, or eligibility to obtain one 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: $300,000-$405,000 USD Logistics 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 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. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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