Senior Hardware Security Architect

Groq, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 341,000 - 402,000; Full time

Job summary

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineering leader to define and drive security architecture across hardware and software stacks, focusing on hardware-rooted trust, attestation, and trusted execution environments.

You will work closely with hardware, firmware, and systems teams to build scalable security capabilities and ensure platform integrity. You will guide threat modeling, secure boot, and protected workload execution while shaping cryptographic material provisioning, identity, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering experience with deep expertise in low-level security
• Experience with hardware-rooted trust, attestation, TEEs, confidential computing or related technologies
• Experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture across hardware and software stack
• Deep understanding of firmware security, platform integrity, boot processes, and secure provisioning
• Strong programming experience in C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python
• Ability to threat model complex systems spanning hardware, firmware, OS, infrastructure, and workloads

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and own architecture for security across hardware, firmware, systems software, and protected workloads
• Design security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation, TEEs and hardware-backed isolation
• Architect attestation capabilities for trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to shape platform integrity and secure boot
• Lead threat modeling and security analysis to identify risks and drive mitigations
• Develop security tooling and automation for reliable hardware-backed security at scale
• Translate complex hardware and systems risks into practical engineering decisions
• Communicate trust models and risk to engineers and leadership

Skills

Low-level security

Hardware-rooted trust

Attestation

TEEs

Cryptography

Security tooling

Programming languages

Threat modeling

Cross-functional leadership

Security architecture

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineering leader to define and drive security architecture across hardware and software stacks, focusing on hardware-rooted trust, attestation, and trusted execution environments.

You will work closely with hardware, firmware, and systems teams to build scalable security capabilities and ensure platform integrity. You will guide threat modeling, secure boot, and protected workload execution while shaping cryptographic material provisioning, identity, and