Robert Heaton is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic with 13 years of engineering experience blending security, machine learning, and red-team research. Previously a long-tenured engineer and later staff engineer at Stripe, he has shipped production security and ML systems at scale and now focuses on frontier red-team work testing advanced models. Trained in physics (Oxford) and advanced computer science (Imperial), he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with practical product engineering. His background includes early-stage startup experience and even founding and exiting a quirky fashion company, signaling entrepreneurial instincts and a taste for unconventional problem solving. Based in London, he also shares technical writing and projects at robertheaton.com and contributes to ML research efforts at Anthropic.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Physics, BA (Hons) Physics at University of Oxford
MSc Advanced Computer Science, MSc Advanced Computer Science at Imperial College London
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Robert Heaton - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic