Principal Threat Intelligence Lead Remote San Francisco, CA

Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

At Anthropic, we are pioneering new frontiers in AI that have the potential to greatly benefit society. However, developing advanced AI also comes with risks if not properly safeguarded, and we are keenly aware that our space is a target for some of the world’s most advanced adversaries. That’s why we are seeking a truly exceptional Principal Threat Intelligence Lead that will be on the front lines to develop, execute, and scale our foundational threat informed defense capabilities.

You will be the key that provides actionable intelligence to protect Anthropic from the most advanced nation state attackers.

• Build foundational threat intelligence capabilities, providing near-real-time actionable intelligence to Anthropic’s Security teams
• Develop and deploy novel tooling to analyze and process wide range of indicators of compromise
• Collaborate across the company to build comprehensive prevention, observability, and investigative capabilities throughout the intelligence lifecycle
• Facilitate development of scalable, AI-leveraged solutions
• Own all aspects of threat intelligence strategy, driving capability scaling and maturing the function over time
• Produce strategic intelligence assessments for executive leadership on emerging threat actor campaigns, geopolitical developments, and industry targeting trends
• Lead threat modeling initiatives that translate intelligence into concrete security architecture recommendations and defensive priorities
• Build and maintain trusted external relationships with government agencies, ISACs, peer companies, and intelligence-sharing communities to ensure early warning of relevant threats
• Partner with detection and response teams to operationalize intelligence into detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident response playbooks

• 15+ years building and maturing threat intelligence programs at large-scale companies
• Expert-level understanding of threat actors, their techniques, and mitigative strategies
• Experience operating in highly targeted environments — ideally with exposure to threats facing technology companies, defense industrial base, or critical infrastructure sectors
• Immense industry connections — you must demonstrate deep partnerships with industry threat intel teams, especially those targeted by nation state actors — when peers get hacked, you know about it (and they give you the IOCs)
• Trusted advisor at the executive level — you have a track record of briefing C-suites, board audit committees, or senior government officials, and you know how to translate threat intelligence into business risk language that drives investment and strategic decisions
• Builder of high-performing teams — you've recruited, developed, and retained elite threat intelligence talent in a competitive market, and analysts you've mentored have gone on to lead programs elsewhere
• Exceptional communicator — you can translate complex technical threats into clear, actionable briefings for executives and board members, and detailed technical guidance for engineers
• Hands‑on technical depth — you're comfortable diving into malware analysis, network forensics, or log analysis when needed, not just consuming finished intelligence

Final date to receive applications: none. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$485,000 - $625,000 USD

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Curr…