Threat Collections Engineer

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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.

About the Role

We are looking for a Threat Collections Engineer to join our Threat Intelligence this role you will build the infrastructure that powers our threat discovery capabilitiesintegrating external data sources developing detection systems for automated lead generation and creating internal tooling that scales our investigators impact.

This is a foundational engineering role on a small high-impact team. You will take projects from proof-of-concept to production work closely with investigators to understand their needs and help scale what may become a multi-person collections function.

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
• Develop behavioral analytics capabilities using DBT-based frameworks and create searchable audit logging infrastructure
• Establish feedback loops with investigators to tune detection systems and reduce false positives
• Scrape and normalize data from external sources to feed threat detection and enrichment workflows

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL for building detection logic data pipelines and automation
• Have experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow DBT or similar)
• Have familiarity with threat intelligence concepts including IOCs YARA rules and threat correlation techniques
• Have experience integrating external APIs and building data ingestion systems
• Can translate investigator needs and workflows into technical requirements
• Are comfortable building v0 systems and iterating based on user feedback
• Have strong communication skills for working closely with non-engineering stakeholders

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience with threat intelligence sharing frameworks (e.g. MISP STIX/TAXII)
• Background in cyber threat intelligence security operations or abuse detection
• Experience building MCP servers or similar tool integrations for AI systems
• Familiarity with web scraping and data extraction at scale
• Experience with behavioral analytics or anomaly detection systems
• Understanding of LLM capabilities and how to leverage them for automation
• A Top Secret Clearance

Deadline to apply:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Logistics

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

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process