Embedded Security Engineer: Kernel Hardening & OTA

Veridian Tech; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Veridian Tech is seeking an Embedded Systems Security Engineer to harden our next-generation embedded Linux platform onsite in Foster City, CA. You will bridge low-level hardware security, kernel hardening, and secure user-space containment while automating security pipelines in CI/CD and coordinating with manufacturing to provision devices securely at scale.

You will design and implement hardware root of trust, secure boot, and trusted execution environments, and you will apply sandboxing and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Hardware Root of Trust and Secure Boot from first-stage bootloader through the Linux kernel.
• Implement dm-verity for verified read-only root filesystems and encrypt data at rest.
• Develop and maintain a TEE (e.g., OP-TEE) and Secure/Trusted Applications.
• Enforce strict user-space isolation and sandboxing via SELinux/AppArmor, cgroups, namespaces, and seccomp.
• Build automated cryptographic signing pipelines in CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to sign bootloaders, kernels, and OTA payloads with HSMs.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to burn hardware fuses securely and develop end-of-line tests for security features.
• Design multi-slot boot recovery layouts (A/B partitions) for OTA resilience.

Skills

Embedded Linux

Board bring-up

Security features

C programming

Python

Bash scripting

CI/CD

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Yocto Project

Buildroot

U-Boot

OP-TEE

SELinux

AppArmor

cgroups/namespaces

seccomp

Kernel hardening

Hardware Root of Trust

Secure Boot

Cryptography

HSMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Yocto Project

Buildroot

U-Boot

OP-TEE

SELinux

AppArmor

cgroups

namespaces

seccomp

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Veridian Tech is seeking an Embedded Systems Security Engineer to harden our next-generation embedded Linux platform onsite in Foster City, CA. You will bridge low-level hardware security, kernel hardening, and secure user-space containment while automating security pipelines in CI/CD and coordinating with manufacturing to provision devices securely at scale.

You will design and implement hardware root of trust, secure boot, and trusted execution environments, and you will apply sandboxing and