# Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About Horizons The Horizons team leads Anthropic's reinforcement learning (RL) research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to every Claude release, with significant impact on the autonomy, coding, and reasoning capabilities of Anthropic's models. About the role We're hiring for the Cybersecurity RL team within Horizons. As a Research Engineer, you'll help to safely advance the capabilities of our models in secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and other areas of defensive cybersecurity. This role blends research and engineering, requiring you to both develop novel approaches and realize them in code. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments, conducting experiments and evaluations, delivering your work into production training runs, and collaborating with other researche

- **Id**: 3947717
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/anthropic-research-engineer-cybersecurity-rl>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T19:12:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:40:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6606
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Generous vacation, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Code Intelligence, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 5
- **Name**: Anthropic
- **Domain**: anthropic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/anthropic>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 158
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.848
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 500000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 500000

## Technologies

- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T22:40:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 298; Filings 12m: 298

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T00:11:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 500000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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