Technical Cyber Threat Investigator (AI, Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote-friendly with required travel and at least 25% office attendance; offices in San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC.

Annual salary: $230,000–$290,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Detect and investigate misuse of AI systems for influence operations, malware development, social engineering, and other cyber activities.
• Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to identify sophisticated threat actors across the platform.
• Create intelligence reports covering attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures targeting LLM systems.
• Conduct cross-platform analysis using open-source research, dark web monitoring, internal data, and real threat actor behavior.
• Use investigation findings to improve safety systems and mitigate harm at scale.
• Build the threat intelligence program through external partnerships, information sharing, processes, tools, and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant field.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection.
• Experience with large language models and their potential misuse for cyber threats.
• 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 and using threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to work from a San Francisco or Washington, DC office at least 25% of the time, with required travel and possible weekend or holiday escalations.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on large-scale AI safety efforts.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.