Threat Intel Lead: CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

Anthropic; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 375,000 - 455,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a threat intel manager to build and run the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. This role detects and investigates misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for CBRN-E threats and for development of advanced weapons.

You will lead a team of investigators with deep domain expertise, engage with government agencies, and report findings to senior leadership. The role may involve exposure to sensitive content and weekend escalations.

Qualifications

• Intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep domain expertise in biosecurity, chemical defense, WMD non-proliferation, or related CBRN-E threat domains.
• Led investigative or analytic teams with mentorship and program-building experience to lead.
• Experience with threat actor profiling, threat intelligence analysis frameworks, and collection frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and how AI could be misused for CBRN-E threats.
• Excellent stakeholder management across researchers, policy experts, legal teams, government, and external partners.
• Ability to 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 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.
• Lead investigations into attempts to use our systems to develop, enhance, or disseminate CBRN-E weapons, or advanced weapons capabilities.
• Evolve detection toward CBRN-specific signals and methodologies with our collections engineers.
• Set the analytic quality bar: cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior and open-source research.
• 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 communities, and scientific organizations.
• Forecast how threat actors will leverage frontier AI for CBRN-E purposes; inform safety-by-design strategies.
• Serve as a liaison to government partners, educating stakeholders on AI-enabled threats through regular reporting and briefings.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentorship

Public speaking

LLM experience

Education

MS/PhD in related field

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a threat intel manager to build and run the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. This role detects and investigates misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for CBRN-E threats and for development of advanced weapons.

You will lead a team of investigators with deep domain expertise, engage with government agencies, and report findings to senior leadership. The role may involve exposure to sensitive content and weekend escalations.