Hardware Security Engineer — Embedded & IoT

Candidate; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Optical benefits

Paid time off

Sick time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401k

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Security Engineer, Hardware Security to join the Product Security Team. You will partner with Engineering and Hardware teams to drive secure-by-default components and scalable security practices across devices and cloud platforms.

You will lead design reviews, threat modeling, and security testing, shaping security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, and firmware lifecycle, in a fast-paced hardware-rich environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Hardware Security experience, designing security by design patterns.
• 5+ years working with product teams to define security designs and requirements.
• 5+ years of hands-on development in Python and C/C++.
• Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot and attestation.
• Experience in cloud, runtime, supply chain, and application security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build hardware security baseline across Motive devices including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, manufacturing.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering to prioritize, validate, and remediate findings.
• Assess hardware security risks across lifecycle: design, manufacturing, deployment, updates, decommissioning.
• Lead security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
• Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, and device lifecycle controls.
• Drive end-to-end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security infrastructure.

Skills

Hardware security

Product security collaboration

Python

C/C++

Hardware root of trust

Security testing

Job description

Motive is seeking a Security Engineer, Hardware Security to join the Product Security Team. You will partner with Engineering and Hardware teams to drive secure-by-default components and scalable security practices across devices and cloud platforms.

You will lead design reviews, threat modeling, and security testing, shaping security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, and firmware lifecycle, in a fast-paced hardware-rich environment.