Technical Cyber Threat Investigator

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About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is a rapidly growing team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders building beneficial AI systems.

Role summary

You will join the Threat Intelligence team to detect, investigate, and disrupt misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for malicious cyber operations. Work sits at the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity and includes developing detection techniques, conducting investigations into misuse cases, and building defenses against AI-enabled threats. This role may involve exposure to explicit sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing content and may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays. Travel is required.

Responsibilities

• Detect and investigate attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for cyber operations, including influence operations, malware development, social engineering, and other adversarial activities
• Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect sophisticated threat actors across the platform
• Create actionable intelligence reports on new attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and threat actor TTPs targeting LLM systems
• Conduct cross-platform threat analysis using open-source research, dark web monitoring, and internal data
• Utilize investigation findings to implement systematic improvements to safety approaches and mitigate harm at scale
• Study internal and ecosystem trends to anticipate AI misuse, generating and publishing reports
• Build and maintain relationships with external threat intelligence partners, information sharing communities, and government stakeholders
• Work cross-functionally to build out the threat intelligence program, establishing processes, tools, and best practices

Requirements

• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection
• Experience with large language models and understanding of potential AI misuse for cyber threats
• Subject matter expertise in abusive user behavior detection (influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior) or cyber threat intelligence
• Experience tracking threat actors across surface, deep, and dark web environments
• Ability to derive insights from large datasets to make decisions and recommendations
• Experience with threat actor profiling and threat intelligence frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK)
• Strong project management skills and ability to build processes from the ground up
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate cross-functionally and present to leadership

Preferred / Nice-to-have

• Experience working with government agencies or in regulated environments
• Background in AI safety, machine learning security, or technology abuse investigation
• Experience building and scaling threat detection systems or abuse monitoring programs
• Active Top Secret security clearance

Compensation

• Annual Salary: $230,000 - $290,000 USD

Logistics

• Education requirements: At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time
• Remote-friendly role (travel required)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist, though sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate

How Anthropic is different

Anthropic emphasizes large-scale, collaborative AI research focused on steerable, trustworthy systems. The company values impact, communication, and cross-disciplinary research.

Safety and application notes

• Candidates may be exposed to explicit and disturbing content in this role
• Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every qualification
• Recruiters will contact candidates only from @anthropic.com addresses; be cautious of scams