What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Scientist / Engineer, RSP Evaluations (CBRN, Biosecurity) position at Anthropic Limited?
We’re building a team that will research and mitigate extreme risks from future models.
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This team will intensively red-team models to test the most significant risks they might be capable of in areas such as biosecurity, cybersecurity risks, or autonomy. We believe that clear demonstrations can significantly advance technical research and mitigations, as well as identify effective policy interventions to promote and incentivize safety.
As part of this team, you will lead research to baseline current models and test whether future frontier capabilities could cause significant harm. Day-to-day, you may decide you need to finetune a model to see whether it becomes superhuman in an eval you’ve designed; whiteboard a threat model with a national security expert; test a new training procedure or how a model uses a tool; or brief government, labs, and other research teams. Our goal is to see the frontier before we get there.
We’re currently hiring for our CBRN workstream, with an emphasis on biosecurity risks (as outlined in our Responsible Scaling Policy). By nature, this team will be an unusual combination of backgrounds. We are particularly looking for people with experience in these domains :
- Biosecurity : You're a biologist who's concerned about the implications of AI development. You're an academic who researches biosecurity defense. You have experience modeling biological phenomena or developing advanced threat modeling simulations.
- Science : You’re an ML researcher who builds agents to augment chemistry or biology research. You’ve built a protein language model and you enjoyed looking through the embedding space. You’re a team lead at an ML-for-drug discovery company. You’ve built software for astronauts or materials scientists.
- Evaluations : You’ve managed a large-scale benchmark development project, in AI or other domains. You have ideas about how AI and ML evaluations can be better.
For this job posting, you can apply to one of two tracks : Research Scientist or Research Engineer.
Do not rule yourself out if you do not fit one of those categories - it’s plausible the people we’re looking for do not fit any of the above! If you think about the most significant upsides and downsides of AI, and you can do good research to get glimpses of what those look like, please consider applying.
Please note : We will only be considering candidates who can be based in the Bay Area for this role. We have a strong preference for candidates who can start ASAP, and ideally by February 2025.
Responsibilities
Synthesize biosecurity research to establish thresholds of concern for AI capabilities
Lead technical design discussions to ensure our infrastructure can support both current needs and future research directions
You may be a good fit if you
For the Research Scientist track : Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in the biological sciences (Molecular Biology, Computational Biology, Bioengineering) or 4 years of professional experience in biology research (including wet-lab) and some familiarity with machine learning or software engineering (Python preferred)
Strong candidates may also have experience with
Representative projects
Candidates need not have
Deadline to apply : None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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