Lead Principal Security Engineer (Hardware Design)

Archer; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Archer, collaborating with Oracle, seeks a Consulting Hardware Security Engineer to define security requirements for OCI compute hardware and to provide design consulting across teams. You will perform security and adversarial assessments, break down complex systems, and influence security posture across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Leading the effort to ensure hardware security features, you will mentor junior engineers and communicate risks to senior leadership while aligning security with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 10+ years in hardware security architecture/engineering/validation/planning or related area.
• Competency in hardware/firmware with a focus on security.
• Experience with reading hardware/system schematics for security concerns.
• Ability to work with multiple programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Define security requirements for hardware enabling OCI security posture.
• Provide independent design consulting for complex compute systems.
• Hands-on security assessments and adversarial assessments.
• Break down complex systems and assign parts for holistic assessment.
• Communicate risks and options to senior leadership, balancing security and business goals.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive security improvements across the org.

Skills

Hardware security architecture

Security engineering

Root Of Trust

x86/ARM server platforms

UEFI

SmartNICs/DPUs

Cryptography security concepts

Programming languages (C/C++/Java/Py/‏

Schematic reading

Reversing tools

Security bug research

Hardware security features design

Education

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

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

About The Team

Define security requirements for OCI cloud compute hardware. Provide design consulting, Architectural and Adversarial Assessment for compute hardware. Define Operating procedures for secure lifecycle management.

Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

As a Consulting Hardware Security Engineer you will be involved in ensuring that the compute hardware that is used in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure meets the security bar to ensure compliance with our security posture. You will define security requirements for hardware ensuring hardware does not preclude inclusion of security controls essential to meet or exceed our posture. You will work closely across Oracle, with third party vendors, and with standards organization to influence the next generation of hardware platform security. You will also works closely with OCI's operations and engineering teams, constantly striving to improve Oracle Cloud's overall operational security posture by defining the supply chain and operational requirements to establish best practices for managing security for devices in our cloud infrastructure.

Our consulting hardware security engineers have a blend of hardware, firmware and security skills, enabling them to help design and assess our most complex compute systems.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Definition of security requirements for hardware enabling OCI security posture aligning business needs and technology trends
• Provide independent design consulting for complex compute systems, balancing business objective and security risks to implement:
  • requirements specified by the hardware security team
  • features required to achieve security bar
  • operations (provisioning, re-use, decommissioning) inline with security posture
• Hands on
  • security assessments of complex compute systems to ensure they meets requirements.
  • adversarial assessments to ensure they can’t be compromised.
• Breakdown complex systems for analysis, assign parts to other members of the team, collaborate on synthesizing the inputs and forming a holistic assessment, contextualized to cloud environments
• Understand business objectives/requirements and assess risk from findings/threat models and identify proper risk mitigation controls
• Work across to teams to ensure requirements, findings and recommendations are implemented inline with expected outcomes
• Communicate risks and options to mitigate to senior leadership, balancing security, technology and business goals
• Identify opportunities for security and process improvements and drive them across the organization
• Advance state of the industry security knowledge through individual research contribution
• Follow developments and trends in their area of subject matter expertise and educate the business and security organization of the developments
• Mentor junior engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in hardware security architecture / engineering / validation / planning or related area
• Demonstrated competency in hardware/firmware with a focus on security
• Competency with computer architecture
• Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following areas:
  • Root Of Trust (TCG SRTM, DRTM)
  • x86 (Intel, AMD), ARM server platform architecture, UEFI
  • GPU platforms, rackscale systems, clustering
  • Baseboard Management Controllers
  • SmartNICs (DPUs)
  • Storage devices
• Security concepts and standards associated Attestation (Ex: SPDM), cryptography, Secureboot, DICE etc.
• Ability to work with most common programming languages (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust)
• Ability to read and review complex hardware system/platform level schematics for security concerns
• Experience with reversing tools and ability to reverse engineer
• Extensive research or experience with multiple classes of security bugs
• Specification and/or design of hardware security features

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to read and understand x86 and/or ARM assembly language
• Knowledge of vendor-specific TEE technologies such as Intel SGX
• Familiarity with common embedded communications interfaces (SPI, I2C, RS232-style serial)
• Knowledge of host and network virtualization technologies and how to use them securely
• Knowledge of enterprise and/or datacenter networking architecture
• Experience operating in a large-scale DevOps or CICD environment
• Ability to write clear and concise product security requirements
• Ability to effectively assess risk from findings and threat models and identify proper risk mitigation controls
• Ability to succeed individually or collaboratively, whether working internally or with external organizations and individuals
• Significant experience working effectively in a large and distributed company
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Conducting training / thought leadership / conference talks / publications

Qualifications

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $130,000 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.