Anthropic’s Safeguards organization is building policies, evaluations, and enforcement systems that keep models from contributing to catastrophic harm. This role is a hands‑on management position leading a research engineering team focused on biological safety. The manager will set technical direction, oversee research and development of evaluation datasets and safety classifiers, and guide the team’s growth and performance while ensuring that safety measures remain robust against sophisticated actors but do not hinder legitimate research.
Research Manager, Biological Safety na Anthropic
Presencial - San Francisco, CA
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USD 405,000 - 405,000
Requirements
Skills
- Experience managing a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- A record of setting technical direction for a team and making prioritization calls under uncertainty
- Proficiency in Python, with a background in scientific programming and data analysis
- A solid grasp of ML fundamentals, sufficient to critically review evaluation design and classifier development
- Knowledge of modern biology across both measurement and engineering: high‑throughput assays and functional characterization, as well as gene synthesis, genome editing, strain construction, and protein engineering
- Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions from noisy results
- Clear analytical and writing skills, and the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with dual‑use research concerns and biosecurity frameworks, such as select agent regulations, the Biological Weapons Convention, or Australia Group guidelines
- Comfort with ambiguity and with shifting priorities as AI capabilities change
- Motivation to prevent misuse without obstructing the beneficial work that makes up the vast majority of this field
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
- Ensure the team invests in the tooling and pipelines that make evaluation and classifier development fast and repeatable
- 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
Technologies
PythonMachine Learning fundamentalsHigh‑throughput assaysGene synthesisGenome editingProtein engineeringLarge language modelsPromptingFine‑tuningAdversarial robustnessRed‑team testingSafety evaluation of ML systems
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