Threat Intel Manager, CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons

Anthropic•Washington, DC

7d•$375,000 - $455,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Threat Intel Manager to establish and lead a new team focused on CBRN-E (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives) and Advanced Weapons threats within their Threat Intelligence division. This role involves maturing the team from its current stage into a rigorous program, hiring specialized investigators, enhancing detection capabilities beyond general harm screens to specific threat detection, and personally leading investigations into potential misuse of AI for weapons development. The position requires significant interaction with government, biosecurity, and scientific stakeholders. It's important to note that this role may involve exposure to explicit and disturbing content and may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Requirements

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
Experience leading investigative or analytic teams and 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 understanding of how AI could be misused for CBRN-E threats
Excellent stakeholder management skills across researchers, policy experts, legal teams, government, and external partners
Ability to present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership

Nice To Haves

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

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.