# Threat Intel Manager, Influence Operations & Surveillance

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $375k – $455k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Osint, LLMs, Threat Intelligence, Social Network Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Lead the Influence Operations & Surveillance team within Anthropic's Threat Intelligence. Build detection capabilities, lead complex investigations into state-sponsored AI misuse for influence ops and surveillance, manage investigators, and drive external reporting and partnerships. Requires deep IO/spyware expertise, team leadership, SQL/Python proficiency, and LLM experience.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the Influence Operations & Surveillance threat intel mission area
- Hire, manage, and develop a small team of technical threat investigators with IO and surveillance expertise
- Personally lead investigations into state-linked surveillance misuse including commercial spyware vendors and surveillance products whose end customers are authoritarian governments and AI-enabled influence campaigns
- Stand up the mission area's first automated detection: abuse signals, behavioral clustering, and coordinated-network detection tailored to information manipulation and surveillance tooling
- Conduct cross-platform analysis linking on-platform activity to broader campaigns across social media, messaging platforms, and the spyware supply chain
- Attribute campaigns to specific actors, with particular focus on state-sponsored operations from geopolitically significant regions
- Own external engagement: government partners, platform integrity teams, academic and civil-society researchers, and threat intelligence sharing communities
- Drive public and partner-facing reporting on AI-enabled IO and surveillance, and inform safety-by-design strategies as multimodal and agentic capabilities reshape the landscape

## Minimum Qualifications
- Deep subject matter expertise in influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or state surveillance / commercial spyware ecosystems
- Led investigative teams or threat intel teams
- Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection
- Experience attributing campaigns to specific threat actors, including state-sponsored operations
- Strong OSINT tradecraft for investigating online information ecosystems
- Hands-on experience with large language models and how they can be weaponized for IO and surveillance
- Can present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a major technology platform on influence operations, platform integrity, or content authenticity
- Background in intelligence analysis, information operations, or counter-disinformation in government or military contexts
- Experience investigating commercial spyware or surveillance-as-a-service vendors (e.g., civil-society or vendor-research backgrounds)
- Experience investigating operations linked to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other state-sponsored campaigns
- Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Farsi, and/or Arabic with nuanced regional and geopolitical context
- Familiarity with social network analysis for mapping coordinated behavior
- Active Top Secret security clearance

## Education and Experience
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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