# Platform Security Engineer, DRTM / Secure Launch

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking a Platform Security Engineer to join our team at Anthropic, focusing on Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM) and Secure Launch. You will play a critical role in building the platform security foundation for our infrastructure that trains and serves frontier models.

## Responsibilities

### DRTM Adoption and Integration

- Own adoption and integration of DRTM hardware security features across Anthropic infrastructure on x86 and ARM platforms

- Implement attestation services and additional security and privacy capabilities enabled by DRTM presence

- Design and implement a bootloader-agnostic solution for initiating and relaunching DRTM sessions

- Investigate further hardening of existing DRTM solutions

### Vendors and Upstream

- Interface with vendor and OEM partners on their DRTM solutions

- Publish relevant DRTM work upstream and help carry Linux Secure Launch maintainership

- Act as technical lead in architecture and design, and disseminate the work through technical papers, conference talks, and community engagement

### Broader Low-Level Platform Work

- Build and harden other platform security features, including confidential computing solutions

- Support custom operating system artifacts, implement device drivers for custom hardware and features, and do firmware diagnosis and enhancement work

- Debug and diagnose kernel and system-level issues on production hardware

## Requirements

- Deep hands-on experience with measured boot and roots of trust

- Strong C and assembly skills, with deep Linux kernel and early-boot fundamentals

- A record of landing non-trivial work upstream in Linux, TianoCore, GRUB, or a comparable community

- Comfort at the hardware/firmware boundary and with the debugging that comes with it

- Strong technical cross-functional leadership and direction setting

## Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years in systems security, with at least 5 years focused on firmware, bootloader, and OS-level security

- Existing maintainership or subsystem ownership in Linux, or standing in the TCG, UEFI Forum, or OCP communities

- Confidential computing implementation experience

## Compensation

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 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

- Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time

- Visa sponsorship: Available

## About Us

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, offering competitive compensation and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- measured boot
- roots of trust
- DRTM
- Linux kernel
- firmware
- bootloaders
- C
- assembly

### Nice to have
- confidential computing
- TCG
- UEFI Forum
- OCP communities
- Linux maintainership

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