AI Safety & Misuse Detection Research Engineer

Anthropic; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Mental health support

Equity packages

Equity donation matching

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Commuter benefits

Education stipend

Home office stipend

Relocation support

On-site meals

Job summary

Anthropic in the United Kingdom seeks ML Engineers and Research Engineers to build safeguards against misuse of AI systems, identifying harmful use and ensuring models behave responsibly. You will develop classifiers and monitoring across contexts, study adversarial robustness, and deploy mitigations for prompt injection.

Strong Python skills, 4+ years in ML, and the ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders are required.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and experience building ML systems.
• Experience mitigating AI misuse and building safeguarding classifiers.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop classifiers to detect misuse and anomalous behavior at scale.
• Build systems to monitor harms across exchanges and aggregate signals.
• Evaluate and mitigate risks in agentic products and defend against prompt injection.

Skills

Python

ML systems

4+ years experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic in the United Kingdom seeks ML Engineers and Research Engineers to build safeguards against misuse of AI systems, identifying harmful use and ensuring models behave responsibly. You will develop classifiers and monitoring across contexts, study adversarial robustness, and deploy mitigations for prompt injection.

Strong Python skills, 4+ years in ML, and the ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders are required.