Senior Security Engineer — Hardware & Software Architect

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 281,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in San Diego, CA. The role focuses on building and updating hardware and software security features across the product lifecycle, guiding cross-functional teams to implement secure architectures.

Applicants should have advanced degrees and substantial security engineering experience; the job emphasizes leadership, risk assessment, and cross-organizational collaboration within Qualcomm's Security Engineering group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of security engineering experience.
• Master's degree with 5+ years of security engineering experience.
• PhD with 4+ years of security engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Leverages deep security knowledge and experience to achieve highly critical engineering business objectives.
• Develops new hardware and software security features and updates existing products; ensures the security of all products is maintained throughout the product lifecycle.
• Performs advanced security assessments and evaluations of company products, including vulnerability and risk assessments and threat analysis, to identify potential design and implementation vulnerabilities.
• Develops highly critical security architectures and solutions for products and subsystems and leads cross-organizational teams to adopt and implement them.

Skills

Security engineering

C

C++

Java

Python

SystemVerilog

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in San Diego, CA. The role focuses on building and updating hardware and software security features across the product lifecycle, guiding cross-functional teams to implement secure architectures.

Applicants should have advanced degrees and substantial security engineering experience; the job emphasizes leadership, risk assessment, and cross-organizational collaboration within Qualcomm's Security Engineering group.