Technical Influence Operations Threat Investigator

About Anthropic

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.

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Influence Operations Threat Investigator to join our Threat Intelligence team. In this role, you will be responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of Anthropic’s AI systems for influence operations, disinformation campaigns, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and other forms of information manipulation.

You will work at the intersection of AI safety and information integrity, combining deep expertise in influence operations with technical investigation skills to identify threat actors who leverage AI to generate synthetic content, amplify narratives, manipulate public discourse, or undermine democratic processes. Your work will directly shape how Anthropic defends against one of the most rapidly evolving categories of AI misuse.

Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Detect and investigate attempts to misuse Anthropic’s AI systems for influence operations, including AI-generated disinformation, coordinated inauthentic behavior, astroturfing, and narrative manipulation campaigns
• Conduct technical investigations using SQL, Python, and other tools to analyze large datasets, trace user behavior patterns, and uncover coordinated networks of threat actors conducting influence operations
• Develop influence operation-specific detection capabilities, including abuse signals, behavioral clustering techniques, and detection methodologies tailored to AI-enabled information manipulation
• Create actionable intelligence reports on influence operation TTPs, emerging narrative threats, and threat actor campaigns leveraging AI systems
• Conduct cross-platform threat analysis linking on-platform activity to broader influence campaigns across social media, messaging platforms, and other digital ecosystems
• Monitor and analyze state-sponsored and non-state influence operations that may leverage AI capabilities, with particular focus on operations originating from or targeting geopolitically significant regions
• Collaborate with policy and enforcement teams to make informed decisions about user violations and ensure appropriate mitigation actions
• Engage with external stakeholders including government agencies, platform integrity teams, academic researchers, and threat intelligence sharing communities
• Forecast how advances in AI technology—including improved content generation, voice synthesis, and multimodal capabilities—will reshape the influence operations landscape and inform safety-by-design strategies

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have deep subject matter expertise in influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, disinformation, or information warfare
• Have demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection
• Have experience tracking and attributing influence campaigns to specific threat actors, including state-sponsored operations
• Have hands-on experience with large language models and understanding of how AI technology could be weaponized for influence operations
• Have experience with open-source intelligence (OSINT) methodologies and tools for investigating online information ecosystems
• Have excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to work with diverse teams including researchers, policy experts, legal teams, and external partners
• Can present analytical work to both technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience at a major technology platform working on influence operations, platform integrity, or content authenticity
• Background in intelligence analysis, information operations, or counter-disinformation within government or military contexts
• Experience investigating operations linked to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other state-sponsored information campaigns
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Farsi, and/or Arabic (speaking, reading, and writing) combined with a nuanced understanding of the geopolitical landscape and cultural context of the respective regions
• Familiarity with social network analysis techniques and tools for mapping coordinated behavior
• 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

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.

Annual Salary:

$230,000—$290,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's 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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're 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. We're 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process