Security Engineer, Operating Systems

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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

We're looking for an Operating Systems Security Engineer to harden and secure the OS layer of our infrastructure. Youll 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. This is a hands?on role where youll work with cutting?edge hardware and implement novel security solutions for environments that dont exist anywhere else in the world. Youll need to balance extreme security requirements with the operational needs of researchers training models at unprecedented scale.

What Youll Do

• Design and implement hardened OS configurations for AI workloads across diverse hardware platforms
• Develop kernel security policies using SELinux, AppArmor, and custom Linux Security Modules and runtime enforcement mechanisms
• Implement and maintain full?disk encryption solutions for diverse storage systems
• Build security infrastructure for AI systems, research environments, and production services
• Build secure network stacks with appropriate isolation and segmentation
• Create OS?level attestation and integrity monitoring systems
• Develop security patches, custom kernel modules, and kernel hardening configurations
• Design secure boot processes and trusted execution environments
• Work with container teams to ensure proper workload isolation at the kernel level
• Design privilege separation and mandatory access control policies
• Implement secure update mechanisms for OS components
• Build tooling for security configuration management and compliance verification

Who You Are

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Compensation

Annual Salary : $300,000 $405,000 USD (includes equity, benefits, and incentive compensation).

Logistics

Education : Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Location : Expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, hybrid policy. Visa Sponsorship : We sponsor visas; we make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa if you receive an offer.

Diversity

We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. Representation is important for the ethical and social implications of AI systems.

How Were Different

We believe that high?impact AI research requires big science. Our team works as a single cohesive team on a few large?scale research efforts, emphasizing impact and collaboration.

Come Work With Us

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and a flexible working arrangement.

Seniority Level

Mid?Senior level

Employment Type

Full?time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Research Services

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