Platform Security Engineering, Operating Systems
Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAOn-siteFull-time
About this role
<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We&39;re looking for an Operating Systems Security Engineer to harden and secure the OS layer of our infrastructure. You&39;ll be responsible for designing and implementing OS-level security controls, from kernel hardening to runtime protection, ensuring our systems can withstand sophisticated attacks while maintaining the performance required for AI model training.</p> <p>This is a hands-on role where you&39;ll work with cutting-edge hardware and implement novel security solutions for environments that don&39;t exist anywhere else in the world. You&39;ll need to balance extreme security requirements with the operational needs of researchers training models at unprecedented scale.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Design and implement hardened OS configurations for AI workloads across diverse hardware platforms</li> <li>Minimize attack surfaces by removing as many unnecessary components as possible from kernelspace and userspace</li> <li>Develop kernel security policies using SELinux, AppArmor, and custom Linux Security Modules and runtime enforcement mechanisms</li> <li>Implement and maintain full-disk encryption solutions for diverse storage systems</li> <li>Build security infrastructure for AI systems, research environments, and production services</li> <li>Create OS-level attestation and integrity monitoring systems</li&