# Platform Hardware Security

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $405,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking a Platform Hardware Security Engineer to design and implement security architectures for bare-metal infrastructure. You'll work with teams across Anthropic to build firmware, bootloaders, operating systems, and attestation systems to ensure the integrity of our infrastructure from the ground up.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement secure boot chains from firmware through OS initialization for diverse hardware platforms (CPUs, BMCs, switches, peripherals, and embedded microcontrollers)

- Architect attestation systems that provide cryptographic proof of system state from hardware root of trust through application layer

- Develop measured boot implementations and runtime integrity monitoring

- Create reference architectures and security requirements for bare-metal deployments

- Integrate security controls with infrastructure teams without impacting training performance

- Prototype and validate security mechanisms before production deployment

- Conduct firmware vulnerability assessments and penetration testing

- Build firmware analysis pipelines for continuous security monitoring

- Document security architectures and maintain threat models

- Collaborate with software and hardware vendors to ensure security capabilities meet our requirements

## Requirements

- Hands-on experience with secure boot, measured boot, and attestation technologies (TPM, Intel TXT, AMD SEV, ARM TrustZone)

- Strong understanding of cryptographic protocols and hardware security modules

- 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 firmware vulnerability assessment and threat modeling

- Track record of designing security architectures for complex, distributed systems

- Experience with supply chain security

- Ability to work effectively across hardware and software boundaries

- Knowledge of NIST firmware security guidelines and hardware security frameworks

## Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in systems security, with at least 5 years focused on firmware and hardware security (firmware, bootloaders, and OS-level security)

- Experience with confidential computing technologies and hardware-based TEEs

- Knowledge of SLSA framework and software supply chain security standards

- Experience securing large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure

- Contributions to open-source security projects (coreboot, CHIPSEC, etc.)

- Background in formal verification or security proof techniques

- Experience with silicon root of trust implementations

- Experience working with building foundational technical designs, operational leadership, and vendor collaboration

- Previous work with AI/ML infrastructure security

## Logistics

- Annual Salary: $405,000-$405,000 USD

- 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!

## Skills

### Required
- secure boot
- measured boot
- attestation technologies
- cryptographic protocols
- hardware security modules
- UEFI/BIOS
- embedded firmware security
- bootloader hardening
- chain of trust implementation
- low-level programming
- systems programming
- firmware vulnerability assessment
- threat modeling
- supply chain security
- NIST firmware security guidelines
- hardware security frameworks

### Nice to have
- confidential computing technologies
- hardware-based TEEs
- SLSA framework
- software supply chain security standards
- securing large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure
- contributions to open-source security projects
- formal verification
- security proof techniques
- silicon root of trust implementations
- foundational technical designs
- operational leadership
- vendor collaboration
- AI/ML infrastructure security

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