AI Safety & Governance Full-time

Technical Cyber Threat Investigator

Anthropic

Location

USA

Type

Full-time

Posted

Jan 15, 2026

Compensation

USD 200000 – 200000

Mission

What you will drive

Core 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 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 by detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for malicious cyber operations.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

Required skills and qualifications:

  • 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. Annual salary range: $230,000—$290,000 USD.

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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.