Security Engineering Manager — Hardware Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 208,300 - 281,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineering Manager to lead the Foundational & Hardware Security team. You will own the hardware security practice across custom silicon design, firmware, and platform technologies, guiding security strategy and ensuring hardware platforms are built and operated to the highest security standards.

This high-impact leadership role collaborates with AWS hardware engineering and platform teams to shape roadmaps, drive risk-based decisions, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience.
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience.
• 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Engage early with AWS hardware engineering teams — including silicon design, firmware, and platform engineering — to influence their security roadmaps, embed security requirements from the earliest stages of product design, and ensure security is a first-class consideration from chip architecture through deployment.
• Define and drive the multi-year hardware security strategy for AWS, covering:
• Custom silicon security: chip-level security architecture for AWS-designed processors such as Graviton, Trainium, and Inferentia — including secure boot, hardware root of trust, memory protection, and inter-chip communication security (encryption, side-channel resistance, power analysis attack mitigations)
• Firmware security: secure firmware development lifecycle, firmware integrity verification, anti-rollback protections, and vulnerability management across AWS hardware platforms
• TPM and cryptographic hardware: TPM implementation, hardware security module (HSM) integration, and cryptographic key management at the hardware layer
• Edge and hybrid device security: end-to-end hardware security for AWS edge and hybrid devices such as AWS Snowball and AWS Outposts — including physical tamper resistance, secure provisioning, and field security operations
• IoT and device security: hardware security architecture for connected and embedded devices, including secure element integration, device attestation, over-the-air (OTA) update security, and hardware-enforced isolation
• Platform and hypervisor security: security verification of platform technologies including hypervisors, virtualization layers, and hardware-software interfaces — ensuring hardware security controls are correctly implemented and enforced at the platform level
• Verify security controls implemented across hardware, firmware, and platform technologies — conducting rigorous security assessments, threat modeling, and penetration testing to validate that security requirements are met end-to-end
• Drive all hardware-related security issues to successful resolution, ensuring prompt response to emerging risks across silicon, firmware, and platform layers
• Communicate major security risks and program status to CISO and AWS Security leadership
• Develop and maintain team training, onboarding, and career development programs
• Represent the AWS Security team as an ambassador with external partners, silicon vendors, and industry standards bodies
• Establish scalable mechanisms for hardware and firmware security review, tooling, and detection across AWS's global hardware fleet

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineering Manager to lead the Foundational & Hardware Security team. You will own the hardware security practice across custom silicon design, firmware, and platform technologies, guiding security strategy and ensuring hardware platforms are built and operated to the highest security standards.

This high-impact leadership role collaborates with AWS hardware engineering and platform teams to shape roadmaps, drive risk-based decisions, and