Platform Security Engineer, OpenBMC

Anthropic
San Francisco, New York, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 405,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["C","C++","Python","Linux","Yocto/OpenEmbedded","BMC","OpenBMC","DMTF","SPDM","PLDM","Redfish","IPMI","KCS","ESPI","I2C","SPI","PCIe"]

Join Anthropic’s founding OpenBMC team to design, build, and harden firmware for server management across x86/Arm platforms. You’ll lead security-focused firmware development, integrate BMC-to-host communications, and drive threat modeling and verification tooling, contributing to a high-security firmware stack used in production hardware.

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Platform Security Engineer, OpenBMC

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Job Summary

Join Anthropic’s founding OpenBMC team to design, build, and harden firmware for server management across x86/Arm platforms. You’ll lead security-focused firmware development, integrate BMC-to-host communications, and drive threat modeling and verification tooling, contributing to a high-security firmware stack used in production hardware.
Location: San Francisco, New York, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and ship OpenBMC firmware and manageability features for x86 and Arm 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
  • •Own the BMC security posture: secure/measured boot, root of trust, attestation, authenticated update, rollback protection
  • •Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews; coordinate vulnerability disclosure with vendors/upstream community
  • •Build verification tooling: static analysis, fuzzing, firmware extraction, CI gating

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveParantal LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in systems security with at least 5 years in firmware and hardware security (firmware, bootloaders, OS-level security)
  • •Hands-on OpenBMC/BMC firmware experience on x86 and/or Arm, from bring-up through production with D-Bus/sdbusplus
  • •Strong C/C++ and Python, deep Linux user-space/kernel fundamentals, and Yocto/OpenEmbedded proficiency
  • •Knowledge of BMC security posture: secure and measured boot, root of trust, attestation (SPDM), authenticated update (PLDM FW Update)
  • •Upstream contributions to OpenBMC, U-Boot, DMTF, or OCP
Experience:8+ yearsEmbedded firmware securityOpenBMCHardware security
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CC++PythonLinuxYocto/OpenEmbeddedBMCOpenBMCDMTFSPDMPLDMRedfishIPMIKCSESPII2CSPIPCIe
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CC++PythonLinuxYocto/OpenEmbeddedOpenBMCDMTFSPDMPLDMRedfishIPMIKCSESPII2CSPIPCIe

Company Brief

Anthropic
Develops large-scale AI systems and safety research to create reliable, steerable, and interpretable AI assistants and models for commercial and research applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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