Technical Cyber Threat Investigator

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Cyber Threat Investigator to join our Threat Intelligence team. In this role, you will be responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for malicious cyber operations.

You will work at the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity, conducting thorough investigations into potential misuse cases, developing novel detection techniques, and building robust defenses against emerging cyber threats in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-enabled risks. Your work will directly protect the broader ecosystem from sophisticated threat actors who seek to leverage AI technology for harm.

Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

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 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
• Utilize investigation findings to implement systematic improvements to 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 threat intelligence program, establishing processes, tools, and best practices

Required 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 and coordinated inauthentic behavior