Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 485,000 - 625,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an engineering leader for Platform Security Engineering (PSE) to own the roadmap for security across firmware, boot, and host layers. You will lead a growing team of platform security engineers, collaborating with infrastructure, fleet, and silicon vendors to ensure a strong security posture for Anthropic’s compute platforms.

The role combines hands-on management with design reviews and strategic decisions, reporting to the Data Center Security Engineering manager.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in systems security, with focus on firmware, hardware, or OS-level security.
• 5+ years as a people manager of security or systems engineers, including hiring and development.
• Able to go from architecture to implementation detail with secure boot, measured boot, TPM and roots of trust, attestation protocols, UEFI and Linux kernel hardening.
• Owned a technical roadmap end to end, prioritization when security, performance, and delivery timelines conflict.
• Worked with silicon vendors, OEMs, or cloud and bare-metal providers on security requirements and remediation.
• Written design reviews, risk assessments, and status for executives are part of the job.
• Comfortable building a team and processes from an early stage with broad scope.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the platform security engineering group: hiring, onboarding, development, performance, and coordination of engineers.
• Own the platform security roadmap and its delivery across hardware root of trust, attestation, secure/measured boot, and host pipeline.
• Own the firmware supply chain posture: SBOMs, authenticated updates, rollback protection, vendor relationships.
• Drive platform risk assessments for new compute platforms and providers with go/no-go recommendations.
• Partner with infrastructure, fleet, compute, and detection teams to land controls in production without degrading performance.
• Manage relationships with silicon vendors, OEMs, and compute providers on security requirements and remediation timelines.
• Run the team’s operating rhythm: design reviews, threat models, incident participation, and status updates.

Skills

10+ years in systems security

5+ years people management

Secure boot / measured boot / TPM

Roadmap ownership / leadership

Vendor relations / partner management

Clear design reviews / risk comms

Team/building processes (early stage)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenBMC experience

Linux kernel hardening

UEFI/BMC firmware

DRTM / confidential computing primitives

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Platform Security Engineering (PSE) sits within Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE). As Anthropic expands beyond traditional cloud providers into owned facilities, colocation, and partner sites, we take on the security responsibilities that cloud providers used to abstract away: firmware integrity, boot chain verification, platform trust, and host hardening. PSE exists so that Anthropic can deploy training and inference workloads to any qualified environment with a demonstrable security posture, including the technical controls behind our AI Safety Level commitments.

We are hiring an engineering manager to lead a group of platform security engineers covering firmware research, OS and kernel hardening, platform trust integration, and server manageability firmware. You will own the roadmap for this group, grow the team, and be accountable for the security posture of the compute platforms Anthropic runs on: hardware roots of trust, secure and measured boot, attestation, firmware supply chain, and the integrity of the hosts that hold model weights on bare‑metal infrastructure.

This is a hands‑on management role. You will not write most of the code, but you will review designs, make the final call on hard trade‑offs, and be able to reason with your engineers from a silicon root of trust through firmware, bootloader, kernel, and host software. You will partner with infrastructure, fleet, and compute teams inside Anthropic, and with silicon vendors, OEMs, and compute providers outside it.

You will report to the Data Center Security Engineering manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the platform security engineering group: hiring, onboarding, development, performance, and prioritization for full‑time engineers, and coordination of contractor and vendor engineers working alongside them
• Own the platform security roadmap and its delivery: hardware root of trust and attestation, secure and measured boot across CPU, BMC, accelerator, and peripheral firmware, OS and kernel hardening, and the host‑side pipeline that turns attestation evidence into production gates
• Own the firmware supply chain posture for the fleet: SBOM and reference integrity manifests, authenticated update, rollback protection, and the vendor relationships needed to get fixes shipped
• Drive platform risk assessments for new compute platforms and providers, and make evidence‑based go/no‑go recommendations with bounded risk rather than perfect‑or‑nothing gates
• Partner with infrastructure, fleet, compute, and detection and response teams so that platform controls land in production without degrading training or inference performance
• Manage relationships with silicon vendors, OEMs, and compute providers: security requirements, vulnerability management, disclosure and remediation timelines, and upstream and standards‑body engagement (TCG, OCP, IETF)
• Run the team's operating rhythm: design reviews, threat models, incident participation for platform‑layer issues, and clear written status to security and infrastructure leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• Have 10+ years in systems security, with at least 5 years focused on firmware, hardware, or OS‑level security
• Have 5+ years as a people manager of security or systems engineers, including hiring and developing senior and staff‑level engineers
• Can go from architecture to implementation detail with your engineers: secure boot, measured boot, TPM and other roots of trust, attestation protocols (SPDM, DICE, remote attestation), UEFI and BMC firmware, and Linux kernel and OS hardening
• Have owned a technical roadmap end to end, including the prioritization calls when security, performance, and delivery timelines conflict
• Have worked directly with silicon vendors, OEMs, or cloud and bare‑metal providers on security requirements and remediation, and can push a partner to a fix without burning the relationship
• Write clearly: design reviews, risk assessments, and status for executives are part of the job
• Are comfortable building a team and its processes from an early stage, with a scope that is broader than the headcount

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing a mixed team of full‑time engineers, contractors, and vendor engineers while keeping design authority in‑house
• Hands‑on background in OpenBMC or other server management firmware, DRTM or secure launch, or confidential computing primitives (TDX, SEV‑SNP, ARM CCA)
• A record of upstream contributions or maintainership in Linux, OpenBMC, or a comparable community, or standing in TCG, UEFI Forum, or OCP
• Experience securing large‑scale HPC or AI training infrastructure
• Firmware vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or fuzzing background
• Experience running coordinated vulnerability disclosure with hardware or firmware vendors

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary

$485,000—$625,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large‑scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT‑3, Circuit‑Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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