Anthropic
Platform Hardware Security
$320K–$405K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Jun 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum years correlate with internal job level requirements; preferred: 8+ years in systems security, including at least 5 years focused on firmware and hardware security.
- 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; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for candidates who receive an offer.
About the job
Designs and implements security architectures for bare-metal infrastructure, protecting system integrity from firmware through the application layer while meeting AI training performance needs.
What you'll do
- Design secure boot chains, attestation systems, measured boot, and runtime integrity monitoring.
- Assess firmware vulnerabilities, conduct penetration testing, and build continuous firmware analysis pipelines.
- Create security architectures and requirements, validate controls, and collaborate with infrastructure teams and vendors.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with secure boot, measured boot, and attestation technologies such as TPM, Intel TXT, AMD SEV, or ARM TrustZone.
- Experience with UEFI/BIOS or embedded firmware security, bootloader hardening, and chain-of-trust implementation.
- Proficiency in low-level programming (C, Rust, Assembly) and systems programming.
- Knowledge of cryptographic protocols, hardware security modules, firmware vulnerability assessment, threat modeling, and supply chain security.
Nice to have
- Experience with confidential computing and hardware-based TEEs, large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML infrastructure security.
- Knowledge of SLSA, open-source security projects, formal verification, or silicon root of trust implementations.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
TPM, Intel TXT, AMD SEV, ARM TrustZone, UEFI/BIOS, C, Rust, Assembly
AI focus
Secures bare-metal infrastructure used for AI model training; the role also lists previous AI/ML infrastructure security as preferred experience.
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