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.
About
Inside 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.