Senior Platform Security Architect—Hardware-Rooted Trust

Groq, Inc.; Texas; Hybrid; USD 341,000 - 402,000; Full time

Job summary

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineering leader to define and implement hardware-rooted security across firmware, hardware, and software. You will shape platform integrity, secure boot, device identity, and protected workloads while collaborating with hardware, firmware, and systems teams.

You will lead threat modeling, develop scalable tooling, and translate complex risk into practical engineering decisions, ensuring robust security for cutting-edge AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering.
• Experience with hardware-rooted trust, attestation, TEEs, or confidential computing.
• Ability to design and own multi-layer security architecture.
• Strong understanding of boot integrity, device identity, and cryptographic provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and own architecture for security across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Design security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation, and TEEs.
• Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, host software, and workloads.
• Develop security tooling and automation at scale for hardware-backed security.
• Communicate trust models and risk to engineers and leadership.

Skills

Hardware security

Attestation

TEEs

Firmware security

Cryptography

C/C++/Rust/Go/Python

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Groq, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineering leader to define and implement hardware-rooted security across firmware, hardware, and software. You will shape platform integrity, secure boot, device identity, and protected workloads while collaborating with hardware, firmware, and systems teams.

You will lead threat modeling, develop scalable tooling, and translate complex risk into practical engineering decisions, ensuring robust security for cutting-edge AI workloads.