Hardware Platform Security Engineering Manager

Anthropic Limited; 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

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.