Security Engineer, Device/Hardware

Motive; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k

Paid time off

Disability coverage

Job summary

Motive is hiring a Security Engineer, Hardware Security to join our Product Security Team and partner with Engineering and Hardware to ship secure devices. You will design and implement secure-by-default components across firmware, boot processes, and device lifecycles, enabling safer hardware products.

You will lead design reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems, shaping hardware security across IoT and cloud infrastructure and driving security across the entire

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Hardware Security with secure-by-design patterns.
• 5+ years collaborating with product teams on security requirements.
• 5+ years hands-on development in Python and C/C++.
• Strong knowledge of root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection.
• Experience in hardware/system architecture security controls.

Responsibilities

• Build hardware security baseline across Motive devices including boot chain and firmware.
• Drive relationships with hardware engineering to prioritize and remediate findings.
• Assess hardware security risks across lifecycle: design, manufacture, deploy, update, decommission.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
• Define security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, and lifecycle controls.
• Drive end-to-end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security.

Skills

Hardware security

Python

C/C++

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Tools

Firmware debugging

Cloud security practices

Job description

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

As a Security Engineer, Hardware Security you will be a key member of 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 (libraries, services, frameworks, components) that empower hardware engineers to ship the product securely. You will work across teams, influencing security and driving the hardware security initiative.

This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence, focusing on design, automation, and enablement.

What You’ll Do:

• Build the hardware and embedded security baseline and process across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing
• Drive relationships with hardware engineering team to ensure findings are prioritized, validated and remediated
• Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle including designing, manufacturing, deployment, updating, 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, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments.
• Drive end to end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security infrastructure

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years years of experience in Hardware Security, including creating security by design patterns into new devices and platforms
• 5+ years of experience in working with product teams creating security designs and providing security requirements
• 5+ years of hands on development experience in the programming languages like python and C/C++
• Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning concepts.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, reviewing, and validating security controls for hardware and low-level system architectures.
• Experience in cloud security, runtime security, supply chain security, and application security best practices

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits (https://www.comparably.com/companies/motive/perks-and-benefits) The base compensation range for this role is: $160,000 — $205,000 USD

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