Anthropic
Offensive Hardware Security Engineer, Platform Security
About this role
Anthropic seeks a hardware security specialist to conduct in-depth vulnerability assessments of firmware, bootloaders, and attestation systems across diverse platforms. You'll own the full lifecycle of security findings—from discovery through production validation—ensuring exploitable weaknesses are permanently eliminated from the ground up.
What you'll do
- Audit secure boot chains, firmware, and OS initialization across CPUs, BMCs, switches, and embedded systems
- Assess attestation systems and measured boot implementations for cryptographic integrity
- Conduct firmware penetration testing and vulnerability assessments
- Build automated firmware vulnerability assessment pipelines for continuous monitoring
- Validate security mechanisms pre-deployment and collaborate with vendors on exploit mitigation
- Document threat models and security architectures for complex distributed systems
What they're looking for
- Firmware and bootloader security (UEFI/BIOS, secure boot, measured boot)
- Hardware security technologies (TPM, Intel TXT, AMD SEV, ARM TrustZone)
- Low-level programming (C, Assembly, systems programming)
- Cryptographic protocols and hardware security modules
- Vulnerability assessment and threat modeling
- Binary reverse engineering and logic bug analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration across hardware and software teams
- Distributed systems security
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Anthropic
Anthropic builds Claude, an AI assistant, and is hiring for engineering roles across infrastructure, data systems, and security that support both AI research operations and the company's internal technology needs. The company seeks infrastructure engineers, systems integrators, data scientists, and security specialists to build production-scale systems for training data pipelines, financial operations, developer productivity measurement, research infrastructure, and server firmware security.
- Website
- anthropic.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a complex firmware vulnerability you discovered—how did you verify the fix persisted in production?
- Describe your experience auditing secure boot chains across different CPU architectures and how you approached finding logic bugs.