Threat Intelligence Engineer

Details

Anthropic is seeking a Threat Intelligence Engineer to join its Threat Intelligence team and build infrastructure that powers threat discovery capabilities. The role involves integrating external data sources, developing automated detection systems, and creating internal tooling that scales investigators’ impact. This is a foundational engineering role on a small, high-impact team, taking projects from proof of concept to production and working closely with investigators to understand their needs.

Responsibilities

• Build automated detection systems that use disparate signals to identify abusive behavior.
• Take systems from ideation through proof of concept to production with appropriate monitoring, documentation, and maintenance processes.
• Develop and maintain YARA rule infrastructure, including tools for writing, validating, and testing rules against real data.
• Create integrations with external threat intelligence platforms such as VirusTotal, Censys, and Urlscan via MCP servers to enable multi-source correlation during investigations.
• Build data pipelines that ingest intelligence from RSS feeds, CTI news sources, and partner sharing.
• Use Claude to extract TTPs and generate targeted hunting queries.
• Develop behavioral analytics capabilities using DBT-based frameworks.
• Create searchable audit logging infrastructure.
• Establish feedback loops with investigators to tune detection systems and reduce false positives.
• Scrape and normalize data from external sources for threat detection and enrichment workflows.

Requirements

• Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL for detection logic, data pipelines, and automation.
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow, DBT, or similar.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence concepts, including IOCs, YARA rules, and threat correlation techniques.
• Experience integrating external APIs and building data ingestion systems.
• Ability to translate investigator needs and workflows into technical requirements.
• Comfort building initial systems and iterating based on user feedback.
• Strong communication skills for working with non-engineering stakeholders.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. The field of study should be relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with threat intelligence sharing frameworks such as MISP and STIX/TAXII.
• Background in cyber threat intelligence, security operations, or abuse detection.
• Experience building MCP servers or similar tool integrations for AI systems.
• Familiarity with web scraping and data extraction at scale.
• Experience with behavioral analytics or anomaly detection systems.
• Understanding of LLM capabilities and how to leverage them for automation.
• Top Secret Clearance.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration.