Biological Safety Research Manager

anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in SF

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on manager to lead the research engineering team responsible for biological safety, including evaluations, datasets, and classifiers that govern how our models handle biological knowledge.

You will grow and direct a team of research scientists and engineers, set the technical direction, review eval designs, guide data production, and collaborate with Research, Product, Policy, and government affairs to embed biology safety across the development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Experience managing a technical team of researchers and engineers.
• Proficiency in Python with a background in scientific programming and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of research scientists and engineers working on biological safety evaluations and classifiers, including hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development.
• Set the technical direction and roadmap for the biological safety research agenda, and make the calls about what the team builds, what it deprioritizes, and when a safeguard is ready to ship.
• Own the quality of capability evaluations that assess what new models can do in the biological domain, and turn results into deployment recommendations that leadership can act on.
• Guide the development of training and evaluation datasets for our safety classifiers, working with internal and external threat modeling experts to ground them in realistic risk.
• Oversee the training and iteration of safety classifiers alongside ML engineers, optimizing jointly for adversarial robustness and low false‑positive rates.
• Establish how the team measures classifier and eval performance against production traffic, identifies gaps, and prioritizes improvements.
• Direct red‑teaming and stress‑testing of safeguards as threats, models, and product surfaces evolve.
• Partner with Research, Product, Policy, and government affairs colleagues to embed biological safety throughout the model development lifecycle, and serve as an escalation point for biological content.
• Represent the team's work in external communications including model cards, blog posts, and policy documents
• Track developments in biology, machine learning, and biosecurity for their potential to create new risks or enable new mitigations

Skills

People management

Biology safety

ML safety evaluations

Adversarial robustness

Python

Experiment design

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on manager to lead the research engineering team responsible for biological safety, including evaluations, datasets, and classifiers that govern how our models handle biological knowledge.

You will grow and direct a team of research scientists and engineers, set the technical direction, review eval designs, guide data production, and collaborate with Research, Product, Policy, and government affairs to embed biology safety across the development