Platform Hardware Security

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="heading">About the role</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2 class="heading">Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Design and implement secure boot chains from firmware through OS initialization for diverse hardware platforms (CPUs, BMCs, switches, peripherals, and embedded microcontrollers)</li> <li>Architect attestation systems that provide cryptographic proof of system state from hardware root of trust through application layer</li> <li>Develop measured boot implementations and runtime integrity monitoring</li> <li>Create reference architectures and security requirements for bare-metal deployments</li> <li>Integrate security controls with infrastructure teams without impacting training performance</li> <li>Prototype and validate security mechanisms before production deployment</li> <li>Conduct firmware vulnerability assessments and penetration testing</li> <li>Build firmware analysis pipelines for continuous security monitoring</li> <li>Document security architectures and maintain threat models</li> <li>Collaborate with software and hardware vendors to ensure sec