Technical Cyber Threat Investigator
Anthropic
Posted
Jan 15, 2026
Location
Remote (US)
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$230000 - $290000
Mission
What you will drive
- 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 our platform
- Create actionable intelligence reports on new attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and threat actor TTPs targeting LLM systems
- Conduct cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior, using open-source research, dark web monitoring, and internal data
Impact
The difference you'll make
Your work will directly protect the broader ecosystem from sophisticated threat actors who seek to leverage AI technology for harm, working at the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity to build robust defenses against emerging cyber threats in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-enabled risks.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- 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
Benefits
What's in it for you
Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
About
Inside Anthropic
Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.