Cybersecurity RL Research Engineer – AI Safety

Anthropic; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL to advance defensive cybersecurity research and implement RL-driven solutions for analyzing threats. You will design and build environments, run experiments, and push reliable models into production training runs while collaborating with researchers, engineers, and security specialists across the company.

The role blends research and engineering, requiring ML experience with domain cybersecurity expertise.

Qualifications

• Experience in machine learning and cybersecurity research.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• Ability to balance research with engineering implementation.
• Interest in safe and beneficial AI.

Responsibilities

• Partner with researchers and safety teams across Anthropic to understand their analytical needs and build solutions.
• Develop agentic integrations that allow AI systems to autonomously investigate and act on analytical findings.
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the team, including decisions about what to build, what to partner on, and where to invest.
• This role may require participation in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Machine learning

Cybersecurity research

Software engineering

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL to advance defensive cybersecurity research and implement RL-driven solutions for analyzing threats. You will design and build environments, run experiments, and push reliable models into production training runs while collaborating with researchers, engineers, and security specialists across the company.

The role blends research and engineering, requiring ML experience with domain cybersecurity expertise.