# Insider Risk Investigator - Technical & Human Intelligence

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $245,000-$305,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5182430008
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e6dcbc35-379

## Description

We are seeking an exceptional Insider Risk Investigator with expertise in both human and technical investigations to support and protect Anthropic's mission.

The Insider Risk Team works cross-functionally to deter, identify, investigate and mitigate risks to Anthropic's most critical assets,our people, our data, and our infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Triage custom technical detection alerts

- Independently conduct end-to-end insider risk investigations while working closely with IT, Detection and Response, Legal, HR and other cross-functional teams

- Monitor and triage external threats targeting employees

- Conduct sensitive interviews of employees or other involved parties

- Perform technical analysis of logs from SIEM, DLP, UEBA systems

- Leverage AI tools (Claude, Claude Code) to accelerate investigation workflows and data analysis

- Build and maintain investigation documentation

- Assist in iterating and improving on processes, procedures and systems to detect, mitigate and investigate insider risks

- Work cross-functionally to develop, refine and operationalize insider risk indicators, scenarios and mitigation strategies

- Provide rapid-turnaround security assessments to support business operations

- Support education and awareness programs to promote a robust security culture

- Serve as the subject matter expert for insider risk and provide training to team members as needed

You may be a good fit if you have:

- Bachelor's degree and/or higher education in a related field

- 5-8 years of experience in insider risk, corporate investigations or a related domain

- 3-5 years experience in conducting investigative interviews

- Experience conducting OSINT for threat assessment, or counterintelligence

- Experience leveraging DLP, UEBA, SIEM, SOAR and other insider risk security tooling for detections and investigations

- Broad understanding of internal and external investigations, cybersecurity, interview techniques, risk assessment and managing strong cross-functional relationships

- Ability to communicate complex security findings clearly and concisely to non-technical stakeholders (written and verbal)

- Track record of rapid response to time-sensitive security requests

- Comfort operating across organizational boundaries (Security, People, Legal, IT)

- Exceptional communication, collaboration skills and the ability to lead projects with little guidance

- Demonstrated ability to operate independently with minimal oversight while managing sensitive cases

Strong candidates may also have:

- Experience working in the technology industry or at/with AI/ML companies

- Experience with counterintelligence investigations and nation-state threat actor TTPs

- Background in open-source intelligence collection and analysis

- Track record of AI/LLM adoption for productivity gains in investigative work

- Experience contributing to a high growth startup environment

- Specialized knowledge of risks unique to the AI sector

- Experience with data exfiltration investigations across multiple vectors (email, cloud, removable media)

- Experience working in government, defense, or high-security environments

What makes you successful here:

- Entrepreneurial mindset: You see gaps and fill them without being asked

- Technical + human balance: Equal comfort analyzing log data and conducting sensitive interviews

- AI-native approach: You leverage LLMs to work smarter, not just harder

- Mission alignment: You understand AI safety stakes and insider risk's role in protecting that mission

- Judgment under uncertainty: You make sound decisions with incomplete information

- Clear communicator: You distill complex findings into actionable insights for diverse audiences

- Cross-functional navigator: You build relationships and collaborate effectively across teams

Annual compensation range for this role is $245,000-$305,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Technical investigation
- Human investigation
- Insider risk
- Cybersecurity
- Interview techniques
- Risk assessment
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Data analysis
- Log analysis
- SIEM
- DLP
- UEBA
- SOAR
- AI tools
- LLMs

### Nice to have
- Counterintelligence
- Open-source intelligence
- AI/ML
- High growth startup
- Data exfiltration
- Government
- Defense
- High-security environments