Anthropic
Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security
$485K–$625K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in systems security, including at least 5 years focused on firmware, hardware, or OS-level security; 5+ years as a people manager.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Leads the platform security engineering team and roadmap, securing Anthropic’s compute platforms from hardware roots of trust and firmware through operating systems and production attestation controls.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, and manage platform security engineers and coordinate contractor and vendor engineers.
- Deliver the platform security roadmap, including secure boot, attestation, OS and kernel hardening, and firmware supply-chain integrity.
- Assess platform risks and partner with internal infrastructure teams and external vendors on security requirements, fixes, and production deployment.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in systems security, including at least 5 years focused on firmware, hardware, or OS-level security.
- 5+ years managing security or systems engineers, including hiring and developing senior and staff-level engineers.
- Expertise spanning secure and measured boot, roots of trust, attestation, UEFI and BMC firmware, and Linux kernel and OS hardening.
- Experience owning a technical roadmap and working directly with silicon vendors, OEMs, or cloud and bare-metal providers on security requirements and remediation.
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenBMC, DRTM or secure launch, confidential computing, upstream contributions, or large-scale HPC or AI training infrastructure.
- Firmware vulnerability research, reverse engineering, fuzzing, or coordinated vulnerability disclosure experience.
Pay
$485,000 — $625,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
TPM, SPDM, DICE, UEFI, BMC, Linux kernel, OpenBMC, TDX
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