Threat Intel Manager, CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

Lead and build Anthropic's CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons threat intelligence team. Investigate and disrupt AI misuse for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosives, and novel weapons development; manage investigators, engage government partners, and inform AI safety strategies. Requires deep biosecurity/weapons expertise, team leadership, and LLM knowledge.

About the job

Key Responsibilities

Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons mission area; mature it from an emerging function into a rigorous investigative program.
Hire, manage, and develop a team of investigators with deep domain expertise across biological, chemical, and weapons-development threat areas.
Personally lead investigations into attempts to use our systems to develop, enhance, or disseminate CBRN-E weapons, or advanced weapons capabilities.
Evolve detection from broad harm screens toward CBRN-specific signals and methodologies tailored to dual-use research concerns, in partnership with our collections engineers.
Set the analytic quality bar: cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior, open-source research, and publicly reported weapons programs.
Own escalation and enforcement decisions with policy and enforcement teams for the highest-severity misuse category we handle.
Lead external engagement with government agencies, biosecurity and chemical-security research communities, and scientific organizations.
Inform safety-by-design and capability-evaluation strategies by forecasting how threat actors will leverage frontier AI for CBRN-E purposes.
Serve as a liaison to government partners, educating stakeholders on AI-enabled threats through regular reporting and briefings.

Minimum Qualifications

Intelligence analyst, policy expert, or researcher with deep domain expertise in biosecurity, chemical defense, weapons non-proliferation, dual-use research of concern (DURC), or related CBRN-E threat domains.
Led investigative or analytic teams; senior domain expert with demonstrated mentorship and program-building experience.
Experience with threat actor profiling, threat intelligence analysis frameworks, and collection frameworks.
Hands-on experience with large language models and how AI could be misused for CBRN-E threats.
Excellent stakeholder management skills across researchers, policy experts, legal teams, government, and external partners.
Can present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in biological sciences, chemistry, biodefense, biosecurity, or a related field.
Real-world experience countering weapons of mass destruction or other high-risk asymmetric threats in the intelligence community or defense organizations.
Experience working with government agencies, defense/national security organizations, or in regulated environments handling sensitive CBRN-E programs, counterproliferation and threat analysis.
Background in AI safety, machine learning security, or technology abuse investigation.
Experience building and scaling threat detection systems or abuse monitoring programs.
Active Top Secret security clearance.

Compensation & Logistics

Annual compensation range: $375,000–$455,000 USD (total compensation).
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Location-based hybrid policy: Expect staff in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
May require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.
May involve exposure to explicit content of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Skills

Threat Intelligence, Biosecurity, Cbrn-E, Weapons Non-Proliferation, Dual-Use Research Of Concern, Threat Actor Profiling, LLMs, Stakeholder Management, Government Engagement, Counterproliferation, Ai Safety, Machine Learning Security