Threat Intel Manager, CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. This role sits within Threat Intelligence and leads the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team focused on detecting, investigating, and disrupting attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosives threats, and development of advanced or novel weapons. The role involves maturing the program, hiring and managing investigators with domain expertise, sharpening detection capabilities, leading high-severity investigations, and engaging with government, biosecurity, and scientific stakeholders.

Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing material. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons mission area; mature it from an emerging function into a rigorous investigative program
• Hire, manage, and develop a team of investigators with deep domain expertise across biological, chemical, and weapons-development threat areas
• Personally lead investigations into attempts to use our systems to develop, enhance, or disseminate CBRN-E weapons, or advanced weapons capabilities
• Evolve detection from broad harm screens toward CBRN-specific signals and methodologies tailored to dual-use research concerns, in partnership with collections engineers
• Set the analytic quality bar: cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior, open-source research, and publicly reported weapons programs
• Own escalation and enforcement decisions with policy and enforcement teams for the highest-severity misuse category handled by the team
• Lead external engagement with government agencies, biosecurity and chemical-security research communities, and scientific organizations
• Inform safety-by-design and capability-evaluation strategies by forecasting how threat actors will leverage frontier AI for CBRN-E purposes
• Serve as a liaison to government partners, educating stakeholders on AI-enabled threats through regular reporting and briefings

Minimum qualifications

• Intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep domain expertise in biosecurity, chemical defense, weapons non-proliferation, dual-use research of concern (DURC), or related CBRN-E threat domains
• Experience leading investigative or analytic teams; senior domain expert with demonstrated mentorship and program-building experience ready to lead
• Experience with threat actor profiling, threat intelligence analysis frameworks, and collection frameworks
• Hands-on experience with large language models and how AI could be misused for CBRN-E threats
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across researchers, policy experts, legal teams, government, and external partners
• Ability to present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in biological sciences, chemistry, biodefense, biosecurity, or a related field
• Real-world experience countering weapons of mass destruction or other high-risk asymmetric threats in the intelligence community or defense organizations
• Experience working with government agencies, defense/national security organizations, or in regulated environments handling sensitive CBRN-E programs, counterproliferation and threat analysis
• 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: $375,000 - $455,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Will correlate with internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more time in offices)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to help, though they cannot guarantee sponsorship for every role/candidate

How we're different

• Anthropic emphasizes large-scale AI research, collaboration, communication, and impact. The company values working as a cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts and hosts frequent research discussions.

Application notes

• Anthropic encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet every qualification listed.
• Recruiters will contact candidates only from @anthropic.com addresses; be cautious of other domains.
• Guidance on candidate AI usage is provided via Anthropic's candidate AI policy link.