Threat Intel Manager, CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

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

About the company

the company’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 the company's AI systems for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives threats and for the development of advanced or novel weapons.

You will mature this from a promising start into a rigorous program, hiring investigators with real CBRN-E, weaponization, and counterproliferation expertise, sharpening detection beyond broad harm screens into threat-specific capabilities, and personally leading the cases where scientific judgment determines whether we're seeing curiosity, legitimate research, or a genuine weapons-development attempt. The area carries significant engagement with government, biosecurity, and scientific stakeholders.

*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

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:

$375,000-$455,000 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.

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