Embedded Security Engineer

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group in Mountain View, CA seeks an Embedded Security Engineer to design and validate secure, production-grade firmware for autonomous vehicles. You will collaborate across software, hardware, and security teams to ensure secure bring-up, manufacturing, and deployment.

The role emphasizes secure boot, firmware encryption, and automotive security concepts such as SecOC, UDS, and TPM 2.0, with hands-on testing in RTOS environments and ongoing adherence to ISO 21434 and

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals to support low-level debugging.
• Expert level knowledge of C or C++ programming; other languages and skills also valuable.
• Prior project work in Secure Boot, Firmware Encryption and Update mechanism.
• Knowledge in automotive security topics such as SecOC, UDS, and TPM 2.0 for ECU security.
• Familiarity with electronics test equipment and hardware debugging (multimeters,oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc).
• Bachelor's degree in EE or CS or CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, build, and test production embedded vehicle firmware with a focus on security.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and optimize secure applications in a real-time operating system environment.
• Work with software, hardware and security engineers throughout the lifecycle of the product - from device bring-up to manufacturing and deployment, ensuring security from design to deployment.
• Work with test engineers and platform engineers in developing testing frameworks and harnesses at the unit, integration, and system levels, including security testing.
• Develop a deep understanding of functional safety and security concepts relevant to autonomous vehicles, including standards like ISO 21434 and ISO 26262.

Skills

C/C++

Secure Boot

Firmware Encryption

ISO 21434

RTOS debugging

Education

Bachelors in EE/CS/CE

Tools

Embedded Linux

NXP S32

NVIDIA SoC

ARM Trusted Boot

Job description

• Design, prototype, build, and test production embedded vehicle firmware with a focus on security.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and optimize secure applications in a real-time operating system environment.
• Work with software, hardware and security engineers throughout the lifecycle of the product - from device bring-up to manufacturing and deployment, ensuring security from design to deployment.
• Work with test engineers and platform engineers in developing testing frameworks and harnesses at the unit, integration, and system levels, including security testing.
• Develop a deep understanding of functional safety and security concepts relevant to autonomous vehicles, including standards like ISO 21434 and ISO 26262.

Job Title:

Embedded Security Engineer

Location:

Mountain View, CA.

Duration

Long Term

Job Description

• Design, prototype, build, and test production embedded vehicle firmware with a focus on security.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and optimize secure applications in a real-time operating system environment.
• Work with software, hardware and security engineers throughout the lifecycle of the product - from device bring-up to manufacturing and deployment, ensuring security from design to deployment.
• Work with test engineers and platform engineers in developing testing frameworks and harnesses at the unit, integration, and system levels, including security testing.
• Develop a deep understanding of functional safety and security concepts relevant to autonomous vehicles, including standards like ISO 21434 and ISO 26262.

Required Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals to support low-level debugging.
• Expert level knowledge of C or C++ programming; other languages and skills also valuable.
• Prior project work in Secure Boot, Firmware Encryption and Update mechanism.
• Knowledge in automotive security topics such as SecOC, UDS, and TPM 2.0 for ECU security.
• Familiarity with electronics test equipment and hardware debugging (multimeters,oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc).
• Bachelors or higher degree in EE or CS or CE or equivalent.

Desirable knowledge

• Experience with mBedTLS integration, device attestation, and key provisioning during manufacturing.
• Proficient in C/C++, and Embedded Linux with real-time debugging and secure driver development.
• Knowledge of S32 NXP, Nvidia SoC processors and ARM trusted boot
• Experience with time synchronization protocols such as PTP.
• Experience with RTOS environments, especially FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS