Security Engineer - Threat Intel

Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Washington, DC.

Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Research, track, and report on threat actors and campaigns targeting AI labs, cloud infrastructure, and the technology sector.
• Build automated tooling and data pipelines that collect, enrich, correlate, and operationalize indicators of compromise.
• Execute intelligence-driven threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS telemetry, turning findings into durable detections.
• Analyze malware, phishing infrastructure, and attacker tooling to extract indicators, TTPs, and attribution signals.
• Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to create detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident context.
• Curate external intelligence and maintain information-sharing relationships with peer companies, ISACs, and government partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis against sophisticated adversaries.
• Deep knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors, including their tooling, infrastructure, tradecraft, and targeting.
• Production-quality Python or similar programming experience, including automation and data pipelines.
• Experience with malware analysis, passive DNS, certificate pivoting, NetFlow, and log analysis.
• Experience authoring detection logic with YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM-native queries.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience defending AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure, developer tooling, or software supply chains.
• Experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to intelligence collection, enrichment, and analysis.
• Public research, conference talks, or open-source contributions in cyber threat intelligence.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business teams.
• Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, and competitive benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching and office-based collaboration spaces.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.