Lead, CBRN-E Threat Intelligence

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco, Washington (CA, District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 375,000 - 455,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Threat Intel Manager to lead the CBRN-E and Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. You will hire and mentor investigators, steer investigations into misuse of AI for CBRN-E threats, and elevate detection toward threat-specific signals in collaboration with collections engineers.

You will engage with government agencies and scientific communities, shaping analytic standards and policy-aligned responses, including high-severity escalations and

Qualifications

• Are an intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep domain expertise in biosecurity, chemical defense, weapons non-proliferation, or related CBRN-E threat domains.
• Have led investigative or analytic teams and are a senior domain expert with demonstrated mentorship and program-building experience ready to lead.
• Have experience with threat actor profiling, threat intelligence analysis frameworks, and collection frameworks.
• Have hands-on experience with large language models and how AI could be misused for CBRN-E threats.
• Have excellent stakeholder management skills across researchers, policy experts, legal teams, government, and external partners.
• Can present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons mission area; mature it from an emerging function into a rigorous investigative program.
• Hire, manage, and develop a team of investigators with deep domain expertise across biological, chemical, and weapons-development threat areas.
• Personally lead investigations into attempts to use our systems to develop, enhance, or disseminate CBRN-E weapons, or advanced weapons capabilities.
• Evolve detection from broad harm screens toward CBRN-specific signals and methodologies tailored to dual-use research concerns, in partnership with our collections engineers.
• Set the analytic quality bar: cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior, open-source research, and publicly reported weapons programs.
• Own escalation and enforcement decisions with policy and enforcement teams for the highest-severity misuse category we handle.
• Lead external engagement with government agencies, biosecurity and chemical-security research communities, and scientific organizations.
• Inform safety-by-design and capability-evaluation strategies by forecasting how threat actors will leverage frontier AI for CBRN-E purposes.
• Serve as a liaison to government partners, educating stakeholders on AI-enabled threats through regular reporting and briefings.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Policy expertise

Biosecurity

Leadership

Analytic frameworks

Threat actor profiling

Open-source research

Communication to stakeholders

Education

MS or PhD in biological sciences/biodefense/biosecurity

Tools

Threat intelligence frameworks

Large language models

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Threat Intel Manager to lead the CBRN-E and Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. You will hire and mentor investigators, steer investigations into misuse of AI for CBRN-E threats, and elevate detection toward threat-specific signals in collaboration with collections engineers.

You will engage with government agencies and scientific communities, shaping analytic standards and policy-aligned responses, including high-severity escalations and