Hardware Security Engineer — Embedded & IoT

Motive; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vision and dental care

Paid time off

Sick time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401k contribution

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Security Engineer, Hardware Security to join the Product Security Team. You will be the primary security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, focusing on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable secure-by-default components for hardware and firmware.

This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence across hardware and cloud security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Hardware Security and security-by-design for devices and platforms.
• 5+ years working with product teams to create security designs and requirements.
• 5+ years of hands-on development in Python and C/C++.
• Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, and device identity.
• Experience in cloud, runtime, supply chain, and application security best practices.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Hardware security

Python

C/C++

Root of trust

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Job description

Motive is seeking a Security Engineer, Hardware Security to join the Product Security Team. You will be the primary security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, focusing on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable secure-by-default components for hardware and firmware.

This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence across hardware and cloud security.