Senior Hardware Security Engineer: Secure-by-Design IoT

Motive; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 146,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pharmacy benefits

Vision care

Dental care

Paid time off

Short term disability

Long term disability

Life insurance

401k contribution

Job summary

Motive is hiring a Security Engineer, Hardware Security, to join the Product Security Team in Canada. You will partner with Engineering and Hardware teams to scale security through design reviews, threat modeling, and secure-by-default components for our devices.

You’ll own the boot chain, firmware security, FOTA, and manufacturing security across IoT and cloud-connected platforms, driving end-to-end security with automation and architecture leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Hardware Security experience and designing security by design patterns for new devices/platforms.
• 5+ years working with product teams to translate security designs into requirements.
• Hands-on development in Python and C/C++, plus understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Build hardware and embedded security baseline across Motive devices (boot chain, firmware, FOTA, manufacturing).
• Drive collaboration with hardware engineering to prioritize, validate, and remediate findings.
• Identify and assess security risks across the product lifecycle including design, manufacturing, deployment, updates and decommissioning.
• Lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
• Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, firmware interfaces, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments.

Skills

Hardware Security

Python

C/C++

Security Architecture

Threat Modeling

Job description

Motive is hiring a Security Engineer, Hardware Security, to join the Product Security Team in Canada. You will partner with Engineering and Hardware teams to scale security through design reviews, threat modeling, and secure-by-default components for our devices.

You’ll own the boot chain, firmware security, FOTA, and manufacturing security across IoT and cloud-connected platforms, driving end-to-end security with automation and architecture leadership.