Senior/Staff Security Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Security Engineer (AI): Building and operationalizing threat intelligence pipelines to protect frontier AI systems with an accent on tracking nation-state actors and advanced criminal threats. Focus on developing automated detection logic, conducting threat hunts, and partnering with incident response teams to secure cloud-native and research-heavy infrastructure.

Location: Must be based in or able to work from the Zürich office (hybrid policy: at least 25% in-office)

Company

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Research and track threat actors targeting AI labs and cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines to operationalize indicators of compromise.
• Execute intelligence-driven threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, and identity telemetry.
• Perform technical analysis of malware and attacker infrastructure to extract TTPs.
• Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to translate intelligence into durable detection rules.
• Build external intelligence-sharing relationships with peer companies and government partners.

Requirements

• Must be able to work from the Zürich office at least 25% of the time.
• Hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis.
• Strong engineering skills with production-quality Python and experience building data pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actor tradecraft.
• Experience authoring detection logic such as YARA, Sigma, or SIEM-native queries.
• Ability to perform malware and infrastructure analysis to develop findings.

Nice to have

• Existing network in the threat intelligence community.
• Experience defending cloud-native environments like AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes.
• Experience applying LLMs or AI tooling to accelerate intelligence analysis.
• Public research, conference talks, or open-source contributions in the CTI space.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Generous vacation and parental leave policies.
• Flexible working hours to support work-life balance.
• Collaborative research environment with frequent discussions on high-impact AI safety work.
• Visa sponsorship support provided for qualified candidates.