# Security Engineer - Threat Intel

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1fe1d498-179c-4549-b7eb-1052d6c3c06a

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 320000 – 405000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves analyzing sophisticated cyber threats targeting AI companies, building detection systems, and partnering with incident responders to operationalize threat intelligence into defenses. It suits experienced threat intelligence practitioners who combine deep adversary knowledge with strong engineering skills and want to work on high-impact security problems.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Python

## Required

- 5+ years of hands-on cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis experience
- Deep knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors, their tooling, infrastructure, and tradecraft
- Production-quality Python or similar programming ability with automation and data pipeline experience
- Malware analysis, infrastructure analysis (passive DNS, certificate pivoting, netflow), and log analysis capability
- Experience authoring detection logic (YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM queries)
- Clear and concise technical writing
- Active threat intelligence community network with track record of sharing

## Nice to have

- Experience defending cloud-native and research-heavy environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure)
- Prior work tracking sophisticated or state-sponsored adversaries where analysis informed detection and incident response
- Experience applying LLMs or AI tooling to accelerate intelligence collection and analysis
- Public research, conference talks, or open-source CTI tooling contributions
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5195705008