Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security

Location: San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA; hybrid policy requires staff to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $485,000–$625,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the platform security engineering group, including hiring, onboarding, development, performance, and prioritization.
• Own the roadmap for hardware roots of trust, attestation, secure and measured boot, OS and kernel hardening, and production attestation gates.
• Own firmware supply-chain security, including SBOMs, integrity manifests, authenticated updates, rollback protection, and vendor remediation.
• Drive security assessments and go/no-go recommendations for compute platforms, providers, and bare-metal environments.
• Partner with infrastructure, fleet, compute, and detection teams to deploy platform controls without degrading training or inference performance.
• Manage vendors and operating processes covering security requirements, vulnerability disclosure, design reviews, threat models, incidents, and executive status reporting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of systems security experience, 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 in secure boot, measured boot, TPM and other roots of trust, SPDM, DICE, remote attestation, UEFI, BMC firmware, and Linux kernel and OS hardening.
• Experience owning technical roadmaps and making prioritization decisions involving security, performance, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience working with silicon vendors, OEMs, cloud providers, or bare-metal providers on security requirements and remediation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience managing mixed teams of employees, contractors, and vendor engineers.
• Background in OpenBMC, DRTM, secure launch, confidential computing, firmware vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or fuzzing.
• Upstream contributions or maintainership in Linux, OpenBMC, TCG, the UEFI Forum, or OCP.
• Experience securing large-scale HPC or AI training infrastructure.
• Experience running coordinated vulnerability disclosure with hardware or firmware vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid office environment.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.
• Frequent research discussions and emphasis on clear communication.