Senior Embedded Security Engineer - Firmware & Crypto

Darwin Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer focused on security to bring up hardware, develop reliable firmware, and integrate security capabilities into working devices.

Requirements include strong C/C++ in embedded contexts, experience with embedded Linux/RTOS/bare-metal, and expertise in drivers, bring-up, and debugging. ARM or RISC-V experience is preferred, with knowledge of secure boot, signing, and cryptography.

Qualifications

• Strong embedded C or C++ development.
• Embedded Linux, RTOS or bare-metal environments.
• Device drivers, board bring-up and hardware debugging.
• ARM, RISC-V or comparable processor architectures.
• Secure boot, firmware signing, trusted execution or cryptographic integration.
• Testing and optimisation within memory, power and performance constraints.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Embedded Linux

RTOS

Bare-metal

Device drivers

Board bring-up

Hardware debugging

ARM

RISC-V

Secure boot

Firmware signing

Trusted execution

Cryptographic integration

Memory constraints

Power constraints

Performance optimization

Secure elements

Hardware cryptographic accelerators

PQC implementation

Job description

Darwin Recruitment is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer focused on security to bring up hardware, develop reliable firmware, and integrate security capabilities into working devices.

Requirements include strong C/C++ in embedded contexts, experience with embedded Linux/RTOS/bare-metal, and expertise in drivers, bring-up, and debugging. ARM or RISC-V experience is preferred, with knowledge of secure boot, signing, and cryptography.