Platform Hardware Security
AnthropicAbout 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
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.
This role requires expertise in low-level systems security and the ability to architect solutions that balance security requirements with the performance demands of training AI models across our massive fleet.
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
Minimum qualifications
- 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 designin