Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security

Location: San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA; hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $485,000–$625,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the platform security engineering group, including hiring, onboarding, development, performance, and prioritization.
• Own the roadmap and delivery for hardware roots of trust, attestation, secure and measured boot, OS and kernel hardening, and host-side production security gates.
• Own firmware supply chain security, including SBOMs, integrity manifests, authenticated updates, rollback protection, and vendor remediation.
• Assess security risks for new compute platforms and providers and make evidence-based go/no-go recommendations.
• Partner with infrastructure, fleet, compute, and detection and response teams to deploy platform controls without degrading training or inference performance.
• Manage relationships with silicon vendors, OEMs, and compute providers, and run design reviews, threat models, incident participation, 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 across security, performance, and delivery constraints.
• Experience working with silicon vendors, OEMs, cloud providers, or bare-metal providers on security requirements and remediation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on a small number of large-scale AI research efforts.
• Competitive compensation with optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment designed for collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with reasonable efforts and immigration lawyer support for successful candidates.