Technical Cyber Threat Investigator
$230k - $290k/yr
Mid
Bachelor's
Washington, DC, USA+2 moreMore locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA
HybridHybrid policy expects staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
CybersecuritySecurity Operations & Incident Response
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required
About the job
Requirements
- Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection.
- Experience with large language models and understanding of how AI technology could be misused for cyber threats.
- Subject matter expertise in abusive user behavior detection, such as influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or cyber threat intelligence.
- Experience tracking threat actors across surface, deep, and dark web environments.
- Ability to derive insights from large datasets to make key decisions and recommendations.
- Experience with threat actor profiling and threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Strong project management skills and ability to build processes from the ground up.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- The role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.
- The role may expose the employee to explicit sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing content.
Responsibilities
- Detect and investigate attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for cyber operations, including influence operations, malware development, social engineering, and other adversarial activities.
- Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect sophisticated threat actors across the platform.
- Create actionable intelligence reports on new attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures targeting large language model systems.
- Conduct cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior, using open-source research, dark web monitoring, and internal data.
- Use investigation findings to implement systematic improvements to the safety approach and mitigate harm at scale.
- Study trends internally and in the broader ecosystem to anticipate how AI systems could be misused, generating and publishing reports.
- Build and maintain relationships with external threat intelligence partners, information-sharing communities, and government stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally to build out the threat intelligence program, establishing processes, tools, and best practices.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with government agencies or in regulated environments.
- 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.
About the company
Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$242.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Sales are multiplying: Anthropic's yearly revenue pace topped $65 billion in July 2026, over sevenfold since December 2025.
- IPO plans advanced: October 2026 reports describe investor meetings and a mid-November listing target; staff shares face lockups.
- Lower office minimum: 627 of 646 Anthropic job posts in October 2026 require at least 25% office time.
What critics are saying
- Job security rides on growth: Anthropic's IPO prospectus lists $518 billion in cloud and computing bills due in coming years.
- Defense work stays off-limits: in September 2026, appeals judges voted 2-1 to let the Pentagon keep blacklisting Anthropic.
- Growth is priced in: Anthropic's valuation reached $965 billion in May 2026, up from $380 billion in February.
What makes Anthropic unique
- Investors don't control its board alone: Anthropic's independent Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a growing number of directors.
- It isn't tied to one chipmaker: Claude runs on Nvidia GPUs plus custom AI chips designed by Google and Amazon.
- It holds back its riskiest model: Claude Mythos 5.1, launched September 2026, goes only to vetted cyberdefenders and life scientists.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Paid Vacation
- Parental Leave
- Hybrid Work Options
- Company Equity