About 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
Anthropic is standing up a founding team to own the server management firmware running across its server fleet. You would be one of the first engineers on it. That means production firmware and manageability features (board bring-up through production) on one side, and hardening that firmware against sophisticated adversaries on the other.
Security is a first-class constraint in everything you ship: you'll write firmware to a high security bar and partner closely with our firmware security and hardware engineers on secure boot, signing, and attestation.
Key responsibilities
Production and manageability:
Design, build, and ship OpenBMC firmware and manageability features for x86 and Arm (including GPU) platforms, from bring-up through production, using Yocto/OpenEmbedded
Build the management stack on DMTF/OCP standards (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, Redfish, RDE) and IPMI/KCS: sensors, telemetry, inventory, logging, RAS
Implement BMC-to-BIOS/host communications, eSPI/LPC, thermal/fan/power management (PMBus)
Work the hardware/firmware boundary: I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, device trees, U-Boot, Linux
Security and hardening:
Own the BMC security posture: secure and measured boot, root of trust, attestation (SPDM), authenticated update (PLDM FW Update), rollback protection, attack-surface reduction
Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews; run coordinated vulnerability disclosure with vendors and the upstream community
Build verification tooling: static analysis, fuzzing, firmware extraction, CI gating
Minimum qualifications
Strong technical cross-functional leadership skills, direction setting
Hands-on OpenBMC/BMC firmware experience on x86 and/or Arm, from bring-up through production with hands-on D-Bus/sdbusplus
Strong C/C++ and Python, deep Linux user-space/kernel fundamentals, and Yocto/OpenEmbedded proficiency
A security mindset applied to firmware, not bolted on afterward
Upstream contributions to OpenBMC, U-Boot, DMTF, or OCP
Working knowledge of out-of-band and in-band management, the relevant DMTF specs, and the device interfaces they run over
Strong debugging and a track record of shipping reliable, well-tested code.
Clear communication across internal teams and external vendors
Ability to work effectively across hardware and software boundaries
Knowledge of NIST firmware security guidelines and hardware security frameworks, specifically SP 800-193 and 800-147/155
Preferred qualifications
8+ years of experience in systems security, with at least 5 years focused on firmware and hardware security (firmware, bootloaders, and OS-level security)
Hardware roots of trust and attestation: Caliptra, OCP S.A.F.E., TPM/HRoT, SPDM
Memory-safe systems code in Rust or Zig
Firmware vulnerability research, reverse-engineering, or fuzzing
Previous work with AI/ML infrastructure security
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$320,000—$405,000 USD
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