Threat Intel Manager, CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 375,000 - 455,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Threat Intel Manager to lead the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. You will guide strategy, priorities, and investigative outcomes to detect and disrupt misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for hazardous threats.

The role requires building and mentoring a multidisciplinary team, advancing detection methods, and coordinating with government partners. You may face sensitive content and weekend escalations, with compensation in the announced range.

Qualifications

• Intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep biosecurity and CBRN-E threat domain knowledge.
• Led investigative or analytic teams with mentorship and program-building experience.
• Experience with threat actor profiling, intelligence frameworks, and collection methods.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and AI misuse risks for CBRN-E.
• Strong stakeholder management across researchers, policy, legal, government, and partners.
• Ability to present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences including government.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and outcomes for the CBRN-E mission area and mature it into a rigorous program.
• Hire, manage, and develop a team of investigators with domain expertise across biological, chemical, and weapons-development threat areas.
• Lead investigations into attempts to misuse Anthropic's systems for CBRN-E weapons or advanced capabilities.
• Evolve detection toward CBRN-specific signals in partnership with collections engineers.
• Set analytic quality standards grounded in open-source research and threat actor behavior.
• Oversee escalation and enforcement decisions with policy and enforcement teams.
• Lead external engagement with government agencies and scientific communities.
• Inform safety-by-design strategies by forecasting threat actor use of frontier AI.
• Serve as liaison to government partners with regular reporting and briefings.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Hands-on LLMs

Policy experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

We are looking for a threat intel manager to build and run our CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. This team detects, investigates, and disrupts attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives threats and for the development of advanced or novel weapons.

Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Key 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Are an intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep domain expertise in biosecurity, chemical defense, weapons non-proliferation, dual-use research of concern (DURC), 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in biological sciences, chemistry, biodefense, biosecurity, or a related field
• Real-world experience countering weapons of mass destruction or other high-risk asymmetric threats in the intelligence community or defense organizations
• Experience working with government agencies, defense/national security organizations, or in regulated environments handling sensitive CBRN-E programs, counterproliferation and threat analysis
• Background in AI safety, machine learning security, or technology abuse investigation
• Experience building and scaling threat detection systems or abuse monitoring programs
• Active Top Secret security clearance

Annual Salary

$375,000—$455,000 USD

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.