Security Engineer - Threat Intel

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Menlo Ventures in New York is seeking a Threat Intelligence Engineer to produce actionable intelligence for detecting threats to AI systems. You will track adversaries targeting AI labs, develop detection tools and analysis processes, and collaborate with various security teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in cyber threat intelligence and be skilled in Python and malware analysis. This role comes with a hybrid work policy and a competitive salary range from $320,000 to $405,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis.
• Deep knowledge of specific nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors.
• Experience performing malware and infrastructure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Research and report on threat actors targeting AI labs and the tech sector.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines for collecting indicators.
• Develop intelligence-driven threat hunts across various telemetry.

Skills

Cyber threat intelligence

Threat hunting

Malware analysis

Production-quality Python

Detection logic authoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

YARA

Snort/Suricata

AWS

GCP

Job description

About the Company

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 sits at the frontier of AI development, which makes us one of the most interesting targets in the world for nation‑state and advanced criminal actors. The Threat Intelligence function within our Detection & Response team exists to make sure we see them coming. As a Threat Intelligence Engineer, you’ll be a hands‑on practitioner responsible for producing the actionable intelligence that drives our detections, hunts, and defensive priorities. You’ll track the adversaries most likely to target a frontier AI lab, build the tooling and pipelines that turn raw indicators into operational defenses, and work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with detection engineers and incident responders to make sure intelligence actually changes outcomes. This is a builder’s role on a small, high‑leverage team — you’ll have broad latitude to shape how threat intelligence is collected, analyzed, and operationalized at Anthropic.

Responsibilities

• Research, track, and report on threat actors and campaigns targeting AI labs, cloud infrastructure, and the broader technology sector — producing timely, actionable intelligence for Security Engineering stakeholders
• Build and maintain tooling and automated pipelines to collect, enrich, correlate, and operationalize indicators of compromise into our detection and alerting stack
• Develop and execute intelligence‑driven threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS telemetry, and turn findings into durable detections
• Perform technical analysis of malware, phishing infrastructure, and attacker tooling to extract indicators, TTPs, and attribution signals
• Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to translate intelligence into detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident context in near‑real‑time
• Curate and triage inbound intelligence from commercial feeds, open source, government, and trusted peer relationships — prioritizing what matters for Anthropic’s threat model
• Contribute to threat models and risk assessments that inform security architecture and defensive investment across the enterprise
• Build and maintain external intelligence‑sharing relationships with peer companies, ISACs, and government partners

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of hands‑on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis at an organization facing sophisticated adversaries
• Have deep, demonstrable knowledge of specific nation‑state or advanced criminal threat actors — their tooling, infrastructure patterns, tradecraft, and targeting
• Are a strong engineer: you write production‑quality Python (or similar), have built automation and data pipelines, and you can deliver tooling independently
• Are comfortable performing malware analysis, infrastructure analysis (passive DNS, certificate pivoting, netflow), and log analysis to develop and validate your own findings
• Have experience authoring detection logic (YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM‑native queries) and understand what makes a detection durable versus brittle
• Can write clearly and concisely — your intelligence products are read and acted on, not filed away
• Have an existing network in the threat intelligence community and a track record of productive bidirectional sharing

Strong Candidates May Have

• Experience defending cloud‑native and research‑heavy environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure, developer tooling, and supply chain)
• Prior work operating in a threat intelligence role tracking sophisticated or state‑sponsored adversaries, where your analysis directly informed detection, threat hunting, and incident response
• Experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to accelerate intelligence collection, enrichment, and analysis
• Public research, conference talks, or open‑source tooling contributions in the CTI space

Annual Salary

$320,000—$405,000 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: Correlates with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location‑based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. 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.