Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security

San Francisco, CA · full time · Senior

$485,000 – $625,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team building security controls for AI training hardware as the company expands into owned and partner data centers. This role suits someone with deep expertise in firmware, hardware, and OS security who has managed security or systems engineers and can navigate complex trade-offs between security, performance, and vendor relationships.

Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

10+ years in systems security with at least 5 years in firmware, hardware, or OS-level security
5+ years managing security or systems engineers, including senior and staff-level hires
Deep technical knowledge of secure boot, measured boot, TPM, attestation protocols, UEFI, BMC firmware, and Linux kernel hardening
End-to-end technical roadmap ownership with security and performance trade-off decisions
Direct experience with silicon vendors, OEMs, or cloud providers on security requirements and remediation
Clear technical writing for design reviews, risk assessments, and executive communication
Ability to build team and processes from early stage with scope broader than headcount

Nice to have

Experience managing mixed teams of full-time engineers, contractors, and vendor engineers
Hands-on OpenBMC, DRTM, or confidential computing background
Upstream contributions or maintainership in Linux, OpenBMC, or standing in TCG, UEFI Forum, OCP
Large-scale HPC or AI training infrastructure security experience
Firmware vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or fuzzing background
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure experience with hardware or firmware vendors