Threat Intel Manager, Influence Operations & Surveillance

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

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

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the Influence Operations & Surveillance threat intel mission area.
• Hire, manage, and develop a small team of technical threat investigators with IO and surveillance expertise.
• Personally lead investigations into state-linked surveillance misuse including commercial spyware vendors and surveillance products whose end customers are authoritarian governments and AI-enabled influence campaigns.
• Stand up the mission area's first automated detection: abuse signals, behavioral clustering, and coordinated-network detection tailored to information manipulation and surveillance tooling.
• Conduct cross-platform analysis linking on-platform activity to broader campaigns across social media, messaging platforms, and the spyware supply chain.
• Attribute campaigns to specific actors, with particular focus on state-sponsored operations from geopolitically significant regions.
• Own external engagement: government partners, platform integrity teams, academic and civil-society researchers, and threat intelligence sharing communities.
• Drive public and partner-facing reporting on AI-enabled influence operations and surveillance, and inform safety-by-design strategies as multimodal and agentic capabilities reshape the landscape.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• Deep subject matter expertise in influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or state surveillance / commercial spyware ecosystems.
• Experience leading investigative teams or threat intel teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection.
• Experience attributing campaigns to specific threat actors, including state-sponsored operations.
• Strong OSINT tradecraft for investigating online information ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and how they can be weaponized for influence operations and surveillance.
• Ability to present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience at a major technology platform on influence operations, platform integrity, or content authenticity.
• Background in intelligence analysis, information operations, or counter-disinformation in government or military contexts.
• Experience investigating commercial spyware or surveillance-as-a-service vendors (e.g., civil-society or vendor-research backgrounds).
• Experience investigating operations linked to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other state-sponsored campaigns.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Farsi, and/or Arabic with nuanced regional and geopolitical context.
• Familiarity with social network analysis for mapping coordinated behavior.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements for the position.
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in office.
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states that they sponsor visas and will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa for an offered candidate.

Compensation

• Annual Salary: $375,000 - $455,000 USD

How we're different

Anthropic emphasizes large-scale, collaborative AI research with impact, values communication skills, and provides a collaborative environment that hosts frequent research discussions. They highlight research directions related to GPT-3, interpretability, multimodal neurons, scaling laws, AI & compute, and learning from human preferences.

Apply / Additional notes

• Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every qualification.
• The application form asks about willingness to work in-person at least 25% of the time and whether visa sponsorship or relocation is required. Anthropic warns about recruiter email security and provides candidate AI guidance.