Platform Security Engineer, Operating Systems

Core responsibilities:

• Design and implement hardened OS configurations for AI workloads across diverse hardware platforms
• Minimize attack surfaces by removing unnecessary components from kernelspace and userspace
• Develop kernel security policies using SELinux, AppArmor, and custom Linux Security Modules
• Build security infrastructure for AI systems, research environments, and production services

This role creates positive change by ensuring AI systems can withstand sophisticated attacks while maintaining performance for AI model training, contributing to the development of safe and beneficial AI systems for society.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in operating systems security or kernel development
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, including kernel subsystems and security frameworks
• Strong programming skills in C and systems programming languages
• Experience with eBPF for security monitoring and enforcement

Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space for collaboration.

Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.