What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Engineer / Scientist, Safeguards position at Anthropic?
About the role
The Safeguards Research Team conducts critical safety research and engineering to ensure AI systems can be deployed safely. As part of Anthropic's broader safeguards organization, we work on both immediate safety challenges and longer-term research initiatives, with projects spanning jailbreak robustness, automated red-teaming, monitoring techniques, and applied threat modeling. We prioritize techniques that will enable the safe deployment of more advanced AI systems (ASL-3 and beyond), taking a pragmatic approach to fundamental AI safety challenges while maintaining strong research rigor.
You take a pragmatic approach to running machine learning experiments to help us understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. You care about making AI helpful, honest, and harmless, and are interested in the ways that this could be challenging in the context of human-level capabilities. You could describe yourself as both a scientist and an engineer. You’ll focus on risks from powerful future systems (like those we would designate as ASL-3 or ASL-4 under our Responsible Scaling Policy), as well as better understanding risks occurring today. You will work in collaboration with other teams including Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, Frontier Red Team, and Alignment Science.
Representative projects :
- Testing the robustness of our safety techniques by training language models to subvert our safety techniques, and seeing how effective they are at subverting our interventions.
- Run multi-agent reinforcement learning experiments to test out techniques like AI Debate.
- Build tooling to efficiently evaluate the effectiveness of novel LLM-generated jailbreaks.
- Write scripts and prompts to efficiently produce evaluation questions to test models’ reasoning abilities in safety-relevant contexts.
- Contribute ideas, figures, and writing to research papers, blog posts, and talks.
- Run experiments that feed into key AI safety efforts at Anthropic, like the design and implementation of our Responsible Scaling Policy.
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