Senior Intelligence Analyst DPRK and China Focus
Chainalysis is a blockchain data and intelligence company providing AI-powered software, data, services, and research for crypto investigations, compliance, fraud prevention, market intelligence, and Web3 security.
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About Chainalysis
Chainalysis supplies blockchain intelligence and AI-powered solutions to government agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions, regulators, and cybersecurity companies. Its portfolio spans investigation, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, risk assessment, threat intelligence, on-chain security, professional services, training, and research.
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About the Role
You will lead end-to-end on-chain attribution for DPRK and Chinese threat actors, including their accounts, addresses, infrastructure, theft, laundering, OTC, underground-banking, and scam-related networks. You will trace illicit funds, respond rapidly to sanctions events, produce customer-ready intelligence, guide collection priorities, translate typologies into detections, build analytical automation, and represent this subject-matter area externally.
Requirements
- Deep demonstrable expertise in DPRK state-sponsored crypto operations and/or Chinese-language money laundering
- Direct on-chain tracing experience against DPRK or Chinese laundering targets, or equivalent threat-finance expertise and blockchain-tracing skill
- Background in intelligence, sanctions, counter-threat finance, or investigations
- Strong knowledge of DPRK and Chinese illicit-finance ecosystems and regional money-laundering flows
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Ability to build automation for analysis
- Comfort working with data
- 5+ years of relevant analytic, intelligence, or threat-finance experience
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end attribution for DPRK and Chinese threat-actor entities and infrastructure
- Lead on-chain attribution responses to DPRK- and China-related sanctions events
- Trace illicit funds through mixers, bridges, swaps, OTC brokers, and off-ramps
- Produce advisory notes, customer briefings, partner briefings, and publications
- Represent DPRK and China crypto-threat expertise at conferences, panels, press engagements, and partner briefings
- Set collection requirements and intelligence priorities for the domain
- Translate DPRK and Chinese laundering typologies into actionable detection guidance
- Design and tune automation that scales analysis
- Raise DPRK, China, and money-laundering tradecraft across the organization
