AI Platform Security Engineer

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking an AI Platform Security Engineer to join the Product Security Office in San Diego. You will secure platforms running demanding AI workloads, implementing security features on internal test platforms and driving remediation across hardware, firmware, and software.

You will perform security assessments, develop fixes, and verify them on real hardware, while collaborating with architecture and firmware teams and supporting customer security inquiries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Multiple years of security engineering experience with emphasis on platform security across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Experience provisioning keys, certificates, and device identities; strong knowledge of secure boot and attestation.

Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, and validate platform security features for AI systems on internal test platforms.
• Conduct security assessments of platforms, firmware, and AI systems, and communicate findings and remediation.
• Develop, review, and apply security fixes; verify them on real hardware.
• Analyze, reproduce, and drive resolution of security issues reported by internal teams and customers.
• Establish and maintain secure builds and AI harnesses; manage keys and device identities for secure boot and attestation.
• Develop tooling and automation to speed security testing and remediation.
• Collaborate with architecture, firmware, and software teams to verify fixes.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate assessment and documentation.

Skills

Security engineering

Platform security

C/C++

Python

Linux

AI security

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Hardware/firmware security

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Caliptra

OpenBMC

coreboot

EDK II

openSIL

SSL/PKI tooling

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for an AI Platform Security Engineer to join the Product Security Office (PSO) in securing the platforms that run the world’s most demanding AI workloads. Working across hardware, firmware, and software, you will implement and validate security features on internal test platforms, conduct security assessments, and drive the resolution of security issues, including those raised by customers. You will turn security requirements and designs into working, verified results on real systems, at the center of how the world’s leading AI companies build and secure their infrastructure.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate is an experienced security engineer who is effective at implementing and validating security on real systems. You are comfortable owning a problem end to end, from analysis and reproduction through developing and verifying the fix. You communicate effectively and work optimally with customers and with different teams across AMD.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement, configure, and validate platform security features for AI systems on internal test platforms
• Conduct security assessments of platforms, firmware, and AI systems, and clearly communicate findings and remediation
• Develop, review, and apply security fixes, and verify them on real hardware
• Analyze, reproduce, and drive resolution of security issues reported by internal teams, customers, and researchers
• Support customer security requirements and respond to customer security inquiries and findings
• Establish and maintain secure builds and AI harnesses
• Provision and manage keys, certificates, and device identities for secure boot, attestation, and platform bring-up
• Develop tooling and automation that make security testing and remediation more efficient and repeatable
• Partner with architecture, firmware, and software teams to get fixes designed, implemented, and verified
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tooling to accelerate assessment, remediation, and documentation

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Multiple years' experience in security engineering or platform, firmware, or software engineering with a security focus
• Experience securing and debugging systems across hardware, firmware, and software, including security assessment, vulnerability analysis, and developing and applying fixes
• Experience provisioning and managing keys, certificates, and device identities (secure boot signing, attestation, PKI), with a solid understanding of platform security concepts: secure boot, attestation, cryptography, memory safety, and isolation
• Proficient in C/C++ and at least one scripting language (Python or similar), and comfortable in Linux environments
• Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development tooling in real engineering work
• Strong communication skills and the ability to drive issues to resolution across teams and with customers
• Experience securing AI/ML workloads or working directly on AI training or inference infrastructure, including familiarity with confidential computing and trusted execution environments
• Familiarity with GPU and accelerator platforms, virtualization (SR-IOV, SIOV, MIG), and firmware, as well as datacenter interconnect standards (PCIe, CXL) and their security features
• Familiarity with supply-chain integrity practices, including SBOM, build provenance, and reproducible builds, and with open-source firmware projects (Caliptra, OpenBMC, coreboot, EDK II, openSIL)
• Experience supporting external security audits, red teams, or independent platform assessment, and knowledge of hardware security standards and frameworks (TCG, NIST, OCP)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

LOCATION:

• San Diego, CA preferred. Open to other AMD US locations for the right candidate.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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