Threat Intelligence Engineer

Anthropic
District of Columbia, Washington
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 300,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Build and scale threat-discovery infrastructure by integrating external data sources, developing automated detection pipelines, and tooling to support investigators. This foundational engineering role moves projects from proof-of-concept to production, creates YARA rule tooling, data ingestion, and multi-source threat correlation, and collaborates with investigators to tune detection and reduce false positives.

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Anthropic
7 months ago

Threat Intelligence Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and scale threat-discovery infrastructure by integrating external data sources, developing automated detection pipelines, and tooling to support investigators. This foundational engineering role moves projects from proof-of-concept to production, creates YARA rule tooling, data ingestion, and multi-source threat correlation, and collaborates with investigators to tune detection and reduce false positives.
Location: District of Columbia, Washington
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build automated detection systems that use disparate signals to identify abusive behavior.
  • •Take systems from idea to proof-of-concept to production-grade with appropriate monitoring, documentation, and maintenance processes
  • •Develop and maintain YARA rule infrastructure, including tools for writing, validating, and testing rules against real data
  • •Create integrations with external threat intelligence platforms (e.g. VirusTotal, Censys, Urlscan) via MCP servers to enable multi-source correlation during investigations
  • •Build data pipelines that ingest intelligence from RSS feeds, CTI news sources, and partner sharing, using Claude to extract TTPs and generate targeted hunting queries

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 405,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL for building detection logic, data pipelines, and automation
  • •Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, DBT, or similar)
  • •Familiarity with threat intelligence concepts including IOCs, YARA rules, and threat correlation techniques
  • •Experience integrating external APIs and building data ingestion systems
  • •Can translate investigator needs and workflows into technical requirements
Experience:CybersecurityThreat intelligenceSecurity operations
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkProblem-solving
Certifications:Top Secret Clearance
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLAirflowDBTYARAMISPSTIX/TAXIIClaudeVirusTotalCensysUrlscanMCP servers

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

Anthropic
Develops large-scale AI systems and safety research to create reliable, steerable, and interpretable AI assistants and models for commercial and research applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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