Senior Crypto Threat Analyst - Terrorism
Elliptic helps businesses detect and prevent financial crime in crypto through blockchain analytics and compliance solutions.
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About Elliptic
Elliptic provides blockchain analytics tools for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and regulators to manage risk and investigate crime. Their platform enables real-time wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and cross-chain investigations to ensure regulatory compliance and prevent financial crime.
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About the Role
Lead complex investigations into terrorist use of cryptoassets and facilitation networks, validate exposure and attribution confidence, build CTF trend intelligence, integrate entities and wallet clusters into datasets, produce typologies and detection logic, and communicate findings to customers, regulators, and public-sector partners.
Requirements
- Experience in intelligence, threat analysis, financial crime, OSINT, or related investigative fields
- Experience in a senior or highly autonomous role
- Understanding of cryptoassets, blockchain analysis, and on-chain tracing tools
- Experience producing evidence-based intelligence reports
- Ability to use Python, SQL, or AI-assisted querying to analyze blockchain or open-source data
- Strong analytical judgment when handling sensitive or uncertain intelligence
- AI fluency applied to intelligence analysis, research workflows, pattern identification, OSINT processing, and written outputs
- Experience investigating terrorist or sanctioned actors’ use of cryptoassets
- Fluency or working proficiency in multiple languages
- Understanding of obfuscation techniques used by illicit actors
Responsibilities
- Lead CTF-focused research and investigations into cryptoasset activity linked to terrorist organizations and facilitation networks
- Identify terrorist financing typologies and build intelligence on evolving CTF trends
- Work across jurisdictions and designation regimes
- Integrate entities, wallet clusters, and illicit behaviors into the intelligence dataset
- Represent CTF intelligence capabilities in client briefings, training sessions, and industry forums
- Support public-sector partners with intelligence to disrupt facilitation networks
- Convert investigative findings into typologies and detection logic
Benefits
- Hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- $650 remote work budget
- $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 US public holidays
- Birthday leave
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k company match
- Mental health support through Spill