Anthropic
Security Engineer - Threat Intel
$320K–$405K
New York City, NY +6 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required)
San Francisco, CA
Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis at an organization facing sophisticated adversaries. The posting also states that required years correlate with internal job-level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Produces actionable threat intelligence and builds tools and pipelines that turn adversary research into threat hunts, detections, and defensive priorities.
What you'll do
- Research threat actors and campaigns, analyze malware and attacker infrastructure, and report actionable findings.
- Build automation and pipelines to collect, enrich, and operationalize indicators into detection and alerting systems.
- Conduct intelligence-driven threat hunts and partner with detection and incident response teams to turn findings into durable defenses.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of specific nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors and their tradecraft.
- Production-quality Python or similar, with experience building automation and data pipelines.
- Experience with malware, infrastructure, and log analysis, and authoring detection logic.
- Clear intelligence writing and an existing threat-intelligence community network with a record of sharing.
Nice to have
- Experience defending cloud-native or research-heavy environments, including AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure, or developer tooling and supply chain.
- Experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to intelligence work; public CTI research, talks, or open-source contributions.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, LLMs
AI focus
May use LLMs or other AI tooling to accelerate intelligence collection, enrichment, and analysis.
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