Threat Intelligence Analyst

Summary

Alignerr is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst to collaborate with leading AI research teams to enhance AI's understanding of cyber threats. The role involves analyzing threat reports, evaluating attack narratives, and improving the quality of AI-generated threat intelligence outputs.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and classify real-world threat reports, adversary campaigns, and attack narratives
• Evaluate indicators of compromise (IOCs), TTPs, and end-to-end attack chains for accuracy and completeness
• Generate, structure, and validate threat intelligence data used to train and assess AI systems
• Review AI-generated threat intelligence outputs and flag inaccuracies, gaps, or fabricated behavior
• Apply frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to assess how well AI captures real attacker tradecraft
• Help model how threat intelligence is tracked, analyzed, and communicated in practice

Skills

• 2+ years of experience in threat intelligence, SOC analysis, or security research
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, OSINT collection, CTI workflows, or similar frameworks
• Able to distinguish genuine attacker behavior from noise, fabricated data, or hallucinated AI outputs
• Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments
• Experience writing or editing threat intelligence reports or advisories
• Familiarity with threat actor tracking, campaign attribution, or malware analysis
• Background in red teaming, incident response, or vulnerability research

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of experience in threat intelligence, SOC analysis, or security research
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, OSINT collection, CTI workflows, or similar frameworks
• Able to distinguish genuine attacker behavior from noise, fabricated data, or hallucinated AI outputs
• Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments

Nice to Haves

• Experience writing or editing threat intelligence reports or advisories
• Familiarity with threat actor tracking, campaign attribution, or malware analysis
• Background in red teaming, incident response, or vulnerability research

Benefits

• Fully remote and flexible — work on your schedule, at your pace
• Freelance autonomy with meaningful, intellectually engaging work
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension