# Security Engineer - Threat Intel

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Malware Analysis, Passive Dns, Netflow, Yara, Sigma, Snort, Suricata, SIEM, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, LLMs
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> This hands-on security engineer will research sophisticated threat actors, build intelligence pipelines, conduct threat hunts, analyze malware and infrastructure, and translate findings into durable detections. The role requires at least five years of cyber threat intelligence or related experience, strong Python engineering, and malware and detection-analysis expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Research, track, and report on threat actors and campaigns targeting AI labs, cloud infrastructure, and the technology sector.
- Build and maintain tooling and automated pipelines to collect, enrich, correlate, and operationalize indicators of compromise into detection and alerting systems.
- Develop and execute intelligence-driven threat hunts across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS telemetry, turning findings into durable detections.
- Perform technical analysis of malware, phishing infrastructure, and attacker tooling to extract indicators, tactics, techniques, procedures, and attribution signals.
- Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to translate intelligence into detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident context.
- Curate and triage intelligence from commercial feeds, open sources, government, and trusted peers.
- Contribute to threat models and risk assessments informing security architecture and defensive investment.
- Build and maintain intelligence-sharing relationships with peer companies, ISACs, and government partners.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis against sophisticated adversaries.
- Deep knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors, including tooling, infrastructure patterns, tradecraft, and targeting.
- Production-quality Python or similar programming experience, including automation and data pipelines.
- Experience with malware analysis, infrastructure analysis, passive DNS, certificate pivoting, NetFlow, and log analysis.
- Experience authoring detection logic using YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM-native queries.
- Clear and concise technical writing.
- Existing threat intelligence community network and a track record of productive bidirectional information sharing.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience defending cloud-native and research-heavy environments, including AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure, developer tooling, and software supply chains.
- Experience tracking sophisticated or state-sponsored adversaries where analysis informed detection, threat hunting, and incident response.
- Experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to intelligence collection, enrichment, and analysis.
- Public research, conference talks, or open-source tooling contributions in cyber threat intelligence.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD

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