Senior Intelligence Analyst, Iran Focus

The R&D team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI-driven platform that automates entity resolution, optimizes data labeling pipelines, and creates predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they escalate. Our data and solutions have been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Now, by pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we help our customers scale their workflows as the cryptocurrency economy becomes increasingly mainstream. Chainalysis data has helped solve some of the world’s highest-profile criminal and national-security cases and made it safer for people everywhere to access crypto. The Global Intelligence Team produces the attribution at the heart of that data — connecting on-chain activity to the real-world entities behind it, across the global crypto ecosystem. It’s the intelligence data moat beneath every Chainalysis product, and what investigators, sanctions authorities, and national-security agencies rely on to follow the money and disrupt threats. Few threats test that mission harder than Iran. Through the IRGC and its Qods Force, a network of proxies and Shia militant groups, state-linked cyber actors, and a sprawling sanctions-evasion apparatus, the Islamic Republic has turned to cryptocurrency to raise, move, and launder value beyond the reach of the traditional financial system — from exchange-based sanctions evasion and crypto mining powered by subsidized energy, to oil- and commodity-for-crypto schemes, dual-use procurement, and the financing of proxies across the region. Making that activity visible on-chain is one of the most consequential problems in crypto intelligence today. 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. You’ll own the attribution for Iran’s crypto footprint, map how these networks actually operate, turn that into finished intelligence customers act on, and be the expert voice representing Chainalysis on Iran crypto threats. Who you’ll work with You’ll join a fast-moving, globally distributed team — analysts, threat-domain SMEs, data scientists, and engineers — collaborating across time zones, async and in real time. We move fast, hold each other to a high bar, and back each other up across regions. As the Iran SME, you’ll be the single point of depth for the domain and a force multiplier for everyone working adjacent to it. 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: Iranian exchanges and OTC/no-KYC networks, IRGC and IRGC-QF financing, Iranian proxy and Shia militant finance (e.g., Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias), sanctions-evasion infrastructure, Iranian ransomware and state-linked cyber operations, and oil-, commodity-, and procurement-for-crypto flows. - Lead the attribution response to Iran-related sanctions events — when OFAC or allied authorities designate Iranian entities, actors, or infrastructure, drive the rapid, high-visibility on-chain attribution that turns those designations into coverage in our data, often against the clock. - Map the networks on-chain — trace how Iranian actors raise, move, launder, and cash out value throug…