Dan Valentine

Dan Valentine is a skilled professional currently serving as a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since July 2025. Prior to this role, Valentine contributed as a Research Contractor at Anthropic from September 2023 to July 2024, where notable work included developing LLM Debate for scalable oversight, which received a Best Paper award at ICML 2024, and investigating gradient-based image jailbreaks in VLMs, accepted to ICLR 2025. In addition, Valentine worked as a Research Scholar at MATS Research from June 2023 to February 2024, focusing on LLM debate. Earlier experience includes roles as a Research Engineer at AI Safety Camp, Senior Software Engineer at Prodigy Education, Software Engineer at BioRender, and Software Engineer at Edgescan. Valentine's career initiated as a Web Developer at JobContax, following education at Dublin City University from 2009 to 2013.