# Research Manager, Biological Safety at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5412944008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-research-manager-biological-safety/

## About the role

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 that govern how our models handle biological knowledge.

## 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 construction, and protein engineering
- Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions from noisy results

Tags: Safeguards (Trust & Safety)