On-Device Security Engineer (Specs Platform)

Snap Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 235,000; Full time

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Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for the Specs Security team to design and harden on-device security systems for Specs and Snap OS. You will work on permissions, access control, secure IPC, sandboxing, and trusted execution, while enabling AI feature privacy and secure data handling.

You will research, design, and implement security features across hardware, firmware, and cloud-connected surfaces. Expect rigorous testing, threat modeling, and validation of security controls in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience building security, privacy, or platform protection features for Linux-based, embedded, mobile, wearable, or connected device systems.
• Experience with applied cryptography, authentication, authorization, secure communications, key management, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, or system security for embedded or Linux-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and harden on-device security systems for Specs, including permissions, access control, secure IPC, sandboxing, and trusted execution boundaries.
• Develop security and privacy controls for on-device AI features, including model integrity, sensitive data handling, inference-time privacy protections, local policy enforcement, and secure access to sensors, user data, and system capabilities.
• Research, design, and implement security features that improve the security posture of Specs across Snap OS, firmware, applications, system services, and cloud-connected device surfaces.
• Improve fuzzing infrastructure, automated security testing, and continuous validation pipelines for OS components, IPC mechanisms, parsers, services, drivers, firmware interfaces, and AI-related data flows.

Skills

Linux-based security

Embedded operating systems

Trusted execution boundaries

Secure software architecture

Applied cryptography

Authentication & authorization

Threat modeling

Vulnerability assessment

Security analysis

Fuzzing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for the Specs Security team to design and harden on-device security systems for Specs and Snap OS. You will work on permissions, access control, secure IPC, sandboxing, and trusted execution, while enabling AI feature privacy and secure data handling.

You will research, design, and implement security features across hardware, firmware, and cloud-connected surfaces. Expect rigorous testing, threat modeling, and validation of security controls in a