Senior Product Security Engineer

Bose Corporation, U.S.A; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 143,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus programs

Health and welfare benefits

401(k) plan

Exclusive perks

Job summary

Bose Corporation is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to reinforce product security for consumer electronics. You will embed security into the secure development lifecycle, design secure firmware, and drive cryptographic protections across on-the-go and in-home platforms.

The role emphasizes building secure code, evaluating vulnerabilities, and guiding engineering teams on security best practices within a fast-paced product environment. Framingham, MA, offers a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of embedded firmware development with security focus.
• Experience with cryptography, encryption, hashing and digital certificates.
• Experience aligning security practices with regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Architect secure product designs and protect intellectual property.
• Develop ARM Trust Zone applets and root of trust mechanisms.
• Manage secrets, cryptography, and credential handling.
• Define security requirements and perform assessments.
• Lead security testing, vulnerability patching, and incident response.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across firmware, devops, cloud, and manufacturing.

Skills

Embedded systems

Linux

C/C++

Cryptography

Security engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree beneficial

Tools

HSMs

Firmware signing tools

Job description

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth - and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound.

Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences. We invite you to join us in this transformation.

Job Description

Join the future of product security at Bose

At Bose, security and stability are the two pillars of our product innovation. We are seeking for a Security Engineer to support the security initiatives for our consumer electronics products. You will play a central role in product security, and have the ability to improve the product security program to meet higher level enterprise security objective. With new products launching every year, there is a constant need to ensure security in our on-the-go and in-the-home platforms. The ideal candidate has extensive secure software development experience in a fast-paced, agile product environment. Join our product security team to power the next wave of innovation at Bose.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you will work as an integral part of the Product Security team to embed security practices into every aspect of the secure development pipeline. Our development philosophy is to enable developers to write secure code faster.

• Architecting and designing products to guarantee secure practices, data confidentiality, system integrity
• Engineering and implementing ARM Trust Zone secure applets, implementing a cryptographic IOT device identity and root of trust
• Streamlining secrets, key management, cryptography, and credential management
• Defining Security requirements and conducting security assessments
• Architect and implement protections for intellectual property, including anti-reverse engineering, secure firmware distribution, and debug interface lockdown
• Ensure compliance with applicable security regulations and standards (e.g., EU CRA, ETSI EN 303 645, NIST) and support audits and certifications
• Advising engineering peers on security matters in the form of architectural guidance, code/design reviews, and solution development
• Improving vulnerability discovery, patching process, and leading responses to external security threats
• Code independently with minimal oversight and design system architecture with guidance
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams like product firmware, devops, cloud engineering, manufacturing, and program management.
• Performing security testing on products and supporting with the security fix implementations
• Designing and maintaining private X.509 and JWK chains of trust used for validating authenticity of portable audio devices
• Stay up-to-date on security news, relevant technologies, plug into user groups, understand trends and security opportunities
• Be a stakeholder on interdisciplinary teams advocating for security

Qualifications

6 or more years of industry experience working in firmware development with a focus on security. An advanced degree can contribute towards experience

• Experience developing for embedded systems and Linux platforms in C, C++
• Strong knowledge of cryptographic theory and engineering including encryption, hashing, signing, digital certificates and hardware security modules (HSMs)
• Building internal security applications with cryptographic guarantees such as firmware encryption and signing, custom developer enablement tools, secure asset provisioning, etc.
• Experience aligning embedded product security practices with regulatory and compliance requirements (EU CRA, NIST, ISO 27001, IEC 62443 or similar frameworks)
• Experience implementing IP protection and anti-tamper mechanisms in embedded systems, including secure boot enforcement, firmware encryption, and hardware debug port protection
• Experience mitigating dependency or code-level defects including memory-management issues, input validation, timing attacks, broken authentication, side channels.
• Experience with computer networking with a focus on security and IOT applications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent. A master's degree is beneficial

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $142,600-$196,000.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary.

In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks

• bonus programs
• comprehensive health and welfare benefits
• a 401(k) plan
• exclusive perks