Protective Intelligence Analyst

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Protective Intelligence Analyst to identify, assess, and mitigate threats to people, facilities, and operations. You will shape the program from the ground up, establishing workflows and standards that scale as Anthropic grows.

The role sits at the intersection of intelligence analysis, behavioral threat assessment, and executive protection, producing actionable intelligence for decision-makers in a high-tempo environment with evolving threats.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional protective intelligence or related security field.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field is required.
• Experience with OSINT tradecraft and specialized intelligence tools.
• Ability to interpret social media and online content for risk indicators.
• Strong communication skills for senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct all-source intelligence collection and analysis to identify and prioritize threats to Anthropic and personnel.
• Produce clear, well-sourced analytical products for quick updates and executive reports.
• Investigate and triage concerning communications, online threats, and persons of concern using threat assessment methods.
• Apply behavioral threat assessment principles to cases to guide disposition and threat management.
• Provide intelligence support for executive protection, travel, and major events with briefs and real-time monitoring.
• Monitor open-source channels, social media, and forums for emerging threats and risks.
• Track geopolitical developments and sector-specific threat trends relevant to Anthropic's global operations.
• Build relationships with external intelligence partners and law enforcement to facilitate information sharing.

Skills

OSINT tradecraft

Threat assessment

Intelligence analysis

Executive protection

Geopolitical awareness

Communication with leadership

Social media analysis

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

OSINT tools

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic’s Global Safety, Intelligence, and Security (GSIS) team is responsible for protecting our people, facilities, and operations worldwide. The function spans intelligence, executive protection, investigations, travel and event security, security operations, environmental health and safety, and crisis management.
We are seeking a Protective Intelligence Analyst to join our GSIS team. In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats to Anthropic's people, facilities, operations, and reputation through intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. You'll have the opportunity to help shape the program from the ground up, establishing workflows, analytical standards, and stakeholder relationships that will scale as Anthropic grows.

This role sits at the intersection of intelligence analysis, behavioral threat assessment, and executive protection. You'll produce actionable intelligence that informs security decisions across the organization and operate across the full intelligence cycle, from collection and processing to analysis, production, and dissemination, in a high-tempo environment where the threat landscape is rapidly evolving. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives on the analytical challenge of connecting disparate data points into a coherent threat picture and translating that picture into clear, actionable guidance for decision-makers.

Important Note: In this position, you may be exposed to graphic and explicit content, including material of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Responsibilities

• Conduct all-source intelligence collection and analysis to identify, assess and prioritize physical security threats to Anthropic and its personnel


• Produce clear, well-sourced analytical products, from quick-turn updates to in-depth analytical reports for executive delivery


• Investigate and triage concerning communications, online threats, and persons of concern using established threat assessment methodologies


• Apply behavioral threat assessment principles to persons-of-concern cases, analyzing patterns of concerning behavior, indicators of escalation toward violence, and mitigating factors to guide case disposition and ongoing threat management


• Provide intelligence support for executive protection, travel security, and major events, including pre-travel and event briefs, assessments, and real-time threat monitoring


• Monitor open-source intelligence channels, social media, deep and dark web forums, and web-based intelligence platforms for emerging threats and risks


• Track geopolitical developments and sector-specific threat trends relevant to Anthropic’s global operations and the AI industry


• Build relationships with external intelligence partners, law enforcement agencies, and industry peers working on related issues and to facilitate information sharing

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of professional experience in protective intelligence, corporate investigations, threat assessment, or a related discipline


• Hold a bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field


• Have expertise in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tradecraft, including proficiency with specialized intelligence tools and social media analysis platforms


• Understand how targeted violence develops behaviorally and can recognize and weigh warning behaviors, escalation dynamics, and protective factors when assessing whether a subject is on a pathway toward harm


• Have hands-on experience applying established threat assessment methodologies (e.g., TRAP-18, WAVR-21) to analyze and evaluate individuals of concern


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively tailor complex content for various stakeholders, from technical teams to senior leadership


• Can manage multiple tasks simultaneously under tight deadlines with minimal oversight


• Have a strong drive for continuous process improvement and thrive in highly collaborative environments


• Are comfortable with a flexible schedule, including 24/6 on-call rotation and after-hours response, when needed

Strong candidates may also have:

• Background in high-growth technology companies or startup


• Specialized knowledge of risks unique to the AI sector


• Professional certifications such as BTAM, CPP, PCI, or relevant intelligence community credentials


• Familiarity with privacy law and legal considerations governing intelligence collection in the private sector

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (\"OTE\") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$180,000—$230,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.