Security Engineer - Threat Intel

About the Role

Anthropic sits at the frontier of AI development, which makes us one of the most interesting targets in the world for nation-state and advanced criminal actors. The Threat Intelligence function within our Detection & Response team exists to make sure we see them coming. As a Threat Intelligence Engineer, you'll be a hands-on practitioner responsible for producing the actionable intelligence that drives our detections, hunts, and defensive priorities. You'll track the adversaries most likely to target a frontier AI lab, build the tooling and pipelines that turn raw indicators into operational defenses, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with detection engineers and incident responders to make sure intelligence actually changes outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Research, track, and report on threat actors and campaigns targeting AI labs, cloud infrastructure, and the broader technology sector — producing timely, actionable intelligence for Security Engineering stakeholders
• Build and maintain tooling and automated pipelines to collect, enrich, correlate, and operationalize indicators of compromise into our detection and alerting stack
• Develop and execute intelligence-driven threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS telemetry, and turn findings into durable detections
• Perform technical analysis of malware, phishing infrastructure, and attacker tooling to extract indicators, TTPs, and attribution signals
• Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to translate intelligence into detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident context in near-real-time
• Curate and triage inbound intelligence from commercial feeds, open source, government, and trusted peer relationships — prioritizing what matters for Anthropic's threat model
• Contribute to threat models and risk assessments that inform security architecture and defensive investment across the enterprise
• Build and maintain external intelligence-sharing relationships with peer companies, ISACs, and government partners

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis at an organization facing sophisticated adversaries
• Deep, demonstrable knowledge of specific nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors — their tooling, infrastructure patterns, tradecraft, and targeting
• Strong engineering skills: ability to write production-quality Python (or similar), experience building automation and data pipelines without needing external requirements handoff
• Comfort performing malware analysis, infrastructure analysis (passive DNS, certificate pivoting, netflow), and log analysis to develop and validate findings
• Experience authoring detection logic (YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM-native queries) and understanding durable vs. brittle detections
• Clear and concise written communication skills for actionable intelligence products
• An existing network in the threat intelligence community and a track record of productive bidirectional sharing

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience defending cloud-native and research-heavy environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure, developer tooling, and supply chain)
• Prior work operating in a threat intelligence role tracking sophisticated or state-sponsored adversaries where analysis directly informed detection, threat hunting, and incident response
• Experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to accelerate intelligence collection, enrichment, and analysis
• Public research, conference talks, or open-source tooling contributions in the CTI space