Device Management Software Engineer – Secure OS & Embedded

Rivet Industries; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Rivet Industries is seeking a Software Engineer, Device Management, to help build the secure OS layer and lightweight host services that manage our hardware in the field. You will work at the intersection of systems engineering, security architecture, and embedded infrastructure, owning core pieces of the stack.

The role requires 5+ years of Android system-level experience, strong Linux programming, and familiarity with MDM/EMM, secure boot, and attestation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building Android system-level code (AOSP, custom ROMs, HALs, system services).
• Strong Linux systems programming experience; proficient in Go or similar language.
• Practical experience with MDM/EMM systems: secure enrollment, device posture, policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with secure boot, TPM, certificate chains, attestation, and other low-level security primitives.
• Experience building hardened Android images for regulated/high-assurance deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain low-level Android/Linux platform code: AOSP customizations, system services, HALs, and kernel-level integration.
• Build lightweight host services for device communication, policy distribution, and telemetry.
• Ship secure device management end to end: enrollment, provisioning, attestation, policy enforcement, OTA updates.
• Define and enforce secure software and system configurations across the device fleet.
• Build and manage secure, reproducible environments: certificate signing, sandboxing, runtime hardening.
• Integrate with third-party MDM systems customers deploy.
• Align deployment practices to regulatory/high-assurance frameworks.
• Act as a key owner across the stack, shipping pragmatic, secure, well-documented systems that scale.

Job description

Rivet Industries is seeking a Software Engineer, Device Management, to help build the secure OS layer and lightweight host services that manage our hardware in the field. You will work at the intersection of systems engineering, security architecture, and embedded infrastructure, owning core pieces of the stack.

The role requires 5+ years of Android system-level experience, strong Linux programming, and familiarity with MDM/EMM, secure boot, and attestation.