2 hours ago
Base Salary
$320k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own DRTM hardware security feature adoption and integration across x86 and ARM infrastructure.
- Implement attestation services and security, privacy, isolation, and hardening capabilities enabled by DRTM.
- Design a bootloader-agnostic solution for initiating and relaunching DRTM sessions.
- Investigate PPAM, VMM, UEFI runtime services, ACPI, and other DRTM hardening approaches.
- Collaborate with vendors and OEMs to define and implement DRTM requirements.
- Publish DRTM work upstream and help maintain Linux Secure Launch as tboot is retired.
- Lead architecture and design, and communicate work through specifications, technical papers, conference talks, and community engagement.
- Build and harden confidential computing solutions including TDX and SEV.
- Support custom operating system artifacts, device drivers, firmware diagnosis, and production kernel and system debugging.
- Investigate new and unresolved platform security issues, including dTPM and fTPM security problems.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience with measured boot, DRTM, SRTM, TPM 1.2/2.0, and associated measurement chains.
- Strong C and assembly skills with deep Linux kernel and early-boot knowledge, including bootloaders, UEFI, ACPI, and SMM.
- Record of landing substantial upstream work in Linux, TianoCore, GRUB, or a comparable community.
- Experience with JTAG, serial debugging, platform bring-up, and silicon errata.
- Strong technical cross-functional leadership and direction-setting experience with external vendors and OEMs.
- Clear written communication skills for specifications, design documents, and public technical writing.
- Working knowledge of NIST firmware security guidance, particularly SP 800-193 and SP 800-147/155.
- Preferred: 8+ years in systems security, including at least 5 years focused on firmware, bootloader, and OS-level security.
- Preferred: Linux maintainership or subsystem ownership, or standing in the TCG, UEFI Forum, or OCP communities.
- Preferred: confidential computing experience with TDX, SEV-SNP, ARM CCA, and attestation flows.
- Preferred: experience with Caliptra, OCP S.A.F.E., SPDM, Rust, firmware vulnerability research, reverse engineering, fuzzing, or AI/ML infrastructure security.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range is $320,000–$405,000 USD.
- Hybrid policy currently expects staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible roles and candidates, with immigration-lawyer support.
- Benefits include competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
About Anthropic
We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.