Research Manager, Biological Safety

Job summary

Responsibilities

Anthropic's Safeguards organization builds the policies, evaluations, and enforcement systems that keep our models from contributing to catastrophic harm. We are hiring a manager to lead the research engineering team responsible for biological safety: the evaluations, datasets, and classifiers…

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of research scientists and engineers working on biological safety evaluations and classifiers, including hiring, onboarding, performance, and…
• 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…
• 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

What they're looking for

• 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…

Tech stack

• Python