Senior Intelligence Analyst

Role Description

The R&D team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. As our Iran-focused intelligence analyst — the team’s subject-matter expert on Iran and the IRGC — you’ll own that problem end to end.

This is a depth role: while our analysts cover the breadth of the crypto-services ecosystem, you’ll go deep on a single, high-stakes domain — becoming the person, inside Chainalysis and increasingly across the industry, who understands how Iran and its proxies use crypto and can prove it on-chain.

In this role, you’ll:

• Own Iran attribution end to end — the threat-actor entities, their definitions, and the accounts, addresses, and infrastructure they operate.
• Lead the attribution response to Iran-related sanctions events — drive the rapid, high-visibility on-chain attribution that turns designations into coverage in our data.
• Map the networks on-chain — trace how Iranian actors raise, move, launder, and cash out value.
• Produce finished intelligence — advisory notes, customer and partner briefings, and contributions to flagship publications.
• Be the named external expert — represent Chainalysis on Iran crypto threats at conferences, panels, and briefings.
• Help set the Iran collection agenda — surface what data we need on Iranian networks.
• Translate typologies into detection — turn what you learn about Iranian methods into guidance.
• Build with AI — design and tune the automation that scales your analysis.
• Level up the team — raise the bar on Iran and threat-finance tradecraft broadly.

Qualifications

• Deep, demonstrable Iran expertise — command of the IRGC and IRGC-Qods Force, Iranian sanctions evasion, and/or Iran’s illicit-finance systems.
• On-chain tracing ability against Iranian targets — experience following Iranian crypto activity on-chain.
• A national-security or threat-finance background — intelligence, sanctions, counter-threat-finance, or investigations.
• Regional fluency — strong grasp of Iranian geopolitics and regional financial flows; Farsi (or Arabic) language ability is a significant plus.
• Elite potential and a proven track record — exceptional aptitude, judgment, and work ethic.
• Excellent writing and communication — ability to communicate intelligence effectively.
• AI-forward instincts — ability to build automation to scale work.
• Comfort working with data; blockchain forensics experience strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant analytic, intelligence, or threat-finance experience for a Senior hire; 8+ years and recognized domain authority for a Staff hire.

Requirements

• Farsi language ability.
• Direct experience with OFAC sanctions, terror-finance designations, or the designation process.
• A record of published research or public speaking on Iran, sanctions evasion, or crypto threat finance.
• Familiarity with Iranian exchange infrastructure, crypto mining as a sanctions-evasion vector, or dual-use procurement networks.

Benefits

• AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working.
• We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment.
• Expect to develop capabilities yourself and collaborate across teams.

Company Description

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more.