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Threat Intelligence Analyst roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under the cybersecurity and information security analyst SOC classification. Employers in financial services, defense contracting, and technology routinely sponsor H-1B petitions for this role. The 85,000-slot annual cap and lottery mean timing your job search to align with the April filing window matters.
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About the Team
The USDS FUSE Intelligence program is an all-hazards team that develops products and services with action-based outcomes to reduce and identify risk to TikTok USDS JV. As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate will be responsible for managing the triage, escalation, and reporting of threats against our US business and users that emanate from multiple sources, including internal, external and the deep and dark web.
About the Role
The candidate will effectively fuse their knowledge of the general threat landscape, the USDS business, and cyber threat intelligence sources to generate data driven, action oriented intelligence for stakeholders. The candidate will possess strong skills in research and investigative techniques to develop tailored cyber threat intelligence products. Strong candidates will also possess threat hunting and AI enabled investigations and development skills. This role will require close collaboration with internal Cyber, Financial Crimes, Payments, Legal, other USDS security teams, and various business departments. The candidate must also demonstrate strong intelligence writing and communication skills, contribute to cross-functional teams on a global scale, engage in response actions across various security disciplines, excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous work environment, and share pertinent information as needed to support the company's critical business, market strategy, and operational infrastructure requirements. Additionally, as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate must be able to effectively monitor a variety of tools including SIEM, case management, premium intelligence, OSINT, and social media/ dark web intelligence sources to perform alert review, triage and escalations. The candidate should be able to enhance processes by obtaining a high level of proficiency with collection platforms, tuning alerts, and automating tasks. The candidate must also be able to create and develop threat intelligence reports which outline findings and risk to business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Key contributor to threat intelligence monitoring, alert triage, escalation, and monthly reporting
- Maintain and tune data flows within a Threat Intelligence Monitoring Platform
- Develop automations to enhance intelligence collection and processing including use of AI/LLM enhancements where appropriate or possible
- Identify and further develop current intelligence sources, collection requirements, and reporting processes
- Provide timely escalations and reports with recommended mitigation strategies for business partners
- Contribute CTI intelligence resources to interdisciplinary intelligence reporting, including cyber threat intelligence, converged risk, protective intelligence, criminal intelligence, and influence operations discovery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, information security, privacy, risk, compliance, project management or like discipline from an accredited college or university or measurable knowledge / experience from proven industry, military, defense, or government operations.
- Experience with cyber threat intelligence or threat monitoring, in a security or intelligence role within a global enterprise or intelligence vendor
- Understanding of basic CTI team operations in conjunction with a SOC, Incident Response team, Red Team, Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, or other core CTI stakeholders.
- Firm grasp of CTI analytic methodologies, tooling, and approaches to conducting threat actor analysis, TTP assessments, and contributing to detection engineering processes.
- Experience authoring intelligence products, having a clear grasp of the intelligence lifecycle, and ability to integrate intelligence into security workflows.
- Familiarity with using AI for triage, research or automation.
- Ability to leverage well-honed research expertise for all-source monitoring, to include social-media and dark web sources.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SQL and any one general purpose language for developing automation.
- Understanding or experience working with log sources from various sources, security devices, web applications and infrastructure.
- Experience with threat hunting techniques and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills along with teamwork and collaboration abilities on global and multi-functional teams with different intelligence source groups. Experience creating and disseminating reports to multi-level audiences in a technical environment
- Knowledge of cyber intelligence data sources and platforms while demonstrating time management and prioritization skills. Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance in an enterprise environment
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $106920 - $242820 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
Responsibilities
About the Team
The USDS FUSE Intelligence program is an all-hazards team that develops products and services with action-based outcomes to reduce and identify risk to TikTok USDS JV. As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate will be responsible for managing the triage, escalation, and reporting of threats against our US business and users that emanate from multiple sources, including internal, external and the deep and dark web.
About the Role
The candidate will effectively fuse their knowledge of the general threat landscape, the USDS business, and cyber threat intelligence sources to generate data driven, action oriented intelligence for stakeholders. The candidate will possess strong skills in research and investigative techniques to develop tailored cyber threat intelligence products. Strong candidates will also possess threat hunting and AI enabled investigations and development skills. This role will require close collaboration with internal Cyber, Financial Crimes, Payments, Legal, other USDS security teams, and various business departments. The candidate must also demonstrate strong intelligence writing and communication skills, contribute to cross-functional teams on a global scale, engage in response actions across various security disciplines, excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous work environment, and share pertinent information as needed to support the company's critical business, market strategy, and operational infrastructure requirements. Additionally, as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate must be able to effectively monitor a variety of tools including SIEM, case management, premium intelligence, OSINT, and social media/ dark web intelligence sources to perform alert review, triage and escalations. The candidate should be able to enhance processes by obtaining a high level of proficiency with collection platforms, tuning alerts, and automating tasks. The candidate must also be able to create and develop threat intelligence reports which outline findings and risk to business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Key contributor to threat intelligence monitoring, alert triage, escalation, and monthly reporting
- Maintain and tune data flows within a Threat Intelligence Monitoring Platform
- Develop automations to enhance intelligence collection and processing including use of AI/LLM enhancements where appropriate or possible
- Identify and further develop current intelligence sources, collection requirements, and reporting processes
- Provide timely escalations and reports with recommended mitigation strategies for business partners
- Contribute CTI intelligence resources to interdisciplinary intelligence reporting, including cyber threat intelligence, converged risk, protective intelligence, criminal intelligence, and influence operations discovery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, information security, privacy, risk, compliance, project management or like discipline from an accredited college or university or measurable knowledge / experience from proven industry, military, defense, or government operations.
- Experience with cyber threat intelligence or threat monitoring, in a security or intelligence role within a global enterprise or intelligence vendor
- Understanding of basic CTI team operations in conjunction with a SOC, Incident Response team, Red Team, Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, or other core CTI stakeholders.
- Firm grasp of CTI analytic methodologies, tooling, and approaches to conducting threat actor analysis, TTP assessments, and contributing to detection engineering processes.
- Experience authoring intelligence products, having a clear grasp of the intelligence lifecycle, and ability to integrate intelligence into security workflows.
- Familiarity with using AI for triage, research or automation.
- Ability to leverage well-honed research expertise for all-source monitoring, to include social-media and dark web sources.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SQL and any one general purpose language for developing automation.
- Understanding or experience working with log sources from various sources, security devices, web applications and infrastructure.
- Experience with threat hunting techniques and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills along with teamwork and collaboration abilities on global and multi-functional teams with different intelligence source groups. Experience creating and disseminating reports to multi-level audiences in a technical environment
- Knowledge of cyber intelligence data sources and platforms while demonstrating time management and prioritization skills. Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance in an enterprise environment
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $106920 - $242820 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Threat Intelligence Analyst
Map your degree to the SOC code
Threat Intelligence Analyst positions file under SOC 15-1212 or 15-1299. Confirm your degree field aligns with the employer's LCA job description before applying, since a mismatch between your credential and the listed specialty occupation is a common RFE trigger.
Search LCA filings by occupation code
Use Migrate Mate to filter H-1B employers by the cybersecurity analyst occupation code. You'll see which organizations have active LCA certifications for this exact role, not just general tech sponsorship history.
Target cleared-facility employers early
Many Threat Intelligence Analyst openings at defense contractors require or prefer a security clearance. Start the employer conversation about clearance sponsorship and H-1B concurrently, since clearance timelines can outlast your OPT or cap-gap authorization window.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Look up the Level I through Level IV wage for SOC 15-1212 in your metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before you discuss compensation. Your employer's LCA must certify a wage meeting the DOL prevailing wage, so knowing the floor protects you from an underpayment that could complicate your petition.
Get your offer letter before April 1
H-1B registration opens in early March each year and USCIS selects registrations by lottery before October 1. Threat Intelligence Analyst roles at cap-subject employers need a signed offer letter in hand before registration closes, so negotiate and accept early in Q1.
Use O*NET to strengthen your petition
Pull the Threat Intelligence Analyst job zone and education requirements from O*NET and share them with your employer's legal team. This documentation helps establish specialty occupation status, especially if your job title varies from standard industry classifications.
H-1B Visa Threat Intelligence Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Threat Intelligence Analyst qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. The role falls under information security analysts (SOC 15-1212), which USCIS consistently recognizes as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a closely related field. Employers must document the degree requirement in the LCA and petition. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree regardless of field face higher RFE rates, so job descriptions should specify the relevant discipline.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for this role?
Financial services firms, federal defense contractors, managed security service providers, and large technology companies are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for Threat Intelligence Analyst positions. Government-adjacent contractors are particularly active because the role directly supports compliance and incident response requirements. You can identify employers with verified LCA filings for this occupation by searching Migrate Mate, which surfaces DOL Labor Condition Application data by job title and employer.
Can I work as a Threat Intelligence Analyst on OPT before getting H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, and the SOC 15-1212 classification qualifies for the 24-month STEM OPT extension if your degree is in an eligible STEM field, giving you up to three years of OPT work authorization total. That timeline covers two H-1B lottery cycles, which matters if you're not selected in the first attempt. Confirm your degree appears on the STEM OPT designated degree list and that your employer is E-Verify enrolled before you file the extension.
How does a security clearance affect my H-1B petition for this role?
Your H-1B petition and any clearance investigation run on separate tracks. USCIS approves the petition based on specialty occupation and employer-employee relationship criteria, not clearance eligibility. However, many Threat Intelligence Analyst roles at defense contractors are contingent on clearance, and foreign nationals face longer investigation timelines. Clarify with your employer whether the H-1B offer is conditional on clearance approval before accepting.
What documentation should I prepare to support the specialty occupation requirement?
Gather your academic transcripts, degree certificates, and any professional certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or GIAC credentials. If your degree field is adjacent rather than directly matching the job, a credentials evaluation from a NACES-member organization strengthens the case. The O*NET occupation profile for information security analysts is routinely cited in petitions to document the standard educational requirement for the role.