Anthropic is hiring a geopolitical intelligence analyst to assess risks to its people and operations.

The hire will focus on geopolitical risks and nation-state threats, and joins the company's global safety, intelligence & security team.

The role calls for analysts to "conduct all-source intelligence collection and analysis to identify, assess, and prioritize geopolitical risks and nation-state threats to Anthropic, its personnel, and its operations."

This includes looking for "emerging geopolitical flashpoints, policy shifts, and macro-trends that could impact Anthropic's operations or strategic positioning."

While much of the risk assessment work looks at employee travel and conference attendance, it includes "international expansion and facility siting."

The company currently operates out of the US, with headquarters in San Francisco and data centers being built across the country. Anthropic operates offices in Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and India, with plans to launch a regional HQ in London and Australia. The firm is planning data center leases in Europe and Australia.

Geopolitical risks to data centers have become increasingly apparent with the war in the Middle East. Iranian strikes have hit several AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. Shrapnel also hit an Oracle facility.

Earlier in the conflict, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to attack G42's giant planned data center in the UAE, set to be used by Anthropic rival OpenAI.

OpenAI has also faced threats in the US, albeit from individuals and not nation-states. CEO Sam Altman’s home was attacked in two separate incidents, one involving a Molotov cocktail, and another allegedly involving a gun.

Domestically, Anthropic has also been subjected to threats - but from the US government. The Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after it refused to change its terms of service to allow mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. President Donald Trump called the company "leftwing nut jobs" and threatened "criminal consequences."

Following the comments and the initial announcement of a supply chain risk designation, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote a lengthy internal memo that claimed the attacks were due to the company not donating to Trump or giving "dictator-style praise."

He has since walked back his comments. The designation is being contested in court.