Senior Hardware Security Architect (Root of Trust)

Groq, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 341,000 - 402,000; Full time

Job summary

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security architect to lead the design of hardware-rooted trust and attestation across firmware, hardware, and software. You will work with hardware and systems teams to ensure secure boot, platform integrity, and protected workload execution.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, cryptography, and development of scalable security tooling, with flexible remote work and eventual onsite transition in the US.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in systems, firmware, hardware or security engineering.
• Deep expertise in hardware-rooted trust, attestation and TEEs.
• Experience setting technical direction across hardware and software layers.
• Strong cryptography, key management and secure provisioning knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware and software.
• Design security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation and TEEs.
• Architect attestation capabilities across hardware, firmware, host and workload.
• Collaborate with hardware and systems teams to shape platform integrity and secure boot.
• Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware to workloads.

Skills

Low-level security

Firmware security

Hardware-rooted trust

Attestation

TEEs

Cryptography

C/C++

Rust

Threat modeling

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security architect to lead the design of hardware-rooted trust and attestation across firmware, hardware, and software. You will work with hardware and systems teams to ensure secure boot, platform integrity, and protected workload execution.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, cryptography, and development of scalable security tooling, with flexible remote work and eventual onsite transition in the US.