Anthropic

Security Engineer - Threat Intel

Anthropic
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2 months ago
Washington, DC, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$320k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Research, track, and report on threat actors and campaigns targeting AI labs, cloud infrastructure, and the technology sector.
  • Build and maintain tooling and automated pipelines to collect, enrich, correlate, and operationalize indicators of compromise.
  • Conduct threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS telemetry and convert findings into durable detections.
  • Perform malware, phishing infrastructure, attacker tooling, passive DNS, certificate pivoting, netflow, and log analysis.
  • Translate intelligence into detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident context with Detection Engineering and Incident Response.
  • Curate inbound intelligence from commercial, open-source, government, and peer sources.
  • Contribute to threat models and risk assessments and maintain external intelligence-sharing relationships.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis at an organization facing sophisticated adversaries.
  • Deep demonstrable knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors, including their tooling, infrastructure, tradecraft, and targeting.
  • Production-quality Python or similar engineering experience, including automation and data pipelines.
  • Experience with malware analysis, infrastructure analysis, and log analysis.
  • Experience authoring detection logic using tools or query languages such as YARA, Sigma, Snort, Suricata, or SIEM-native queries.
  • Strong concise technical writing and an existing threat intelligence community network with a record of bidirectional sharing.
  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation range of $320,000–$405,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship and immigration-lawyer support are available for eligible roles and candidates.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and collaborative office space.
  • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.
Anthropic

About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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