Senior SoC Security Architect: Root of Trust & Secure Boot

Arm; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Security Architect to design and implement robust security architectures for modern SoCs. You will lead efforts across Root of Trust, Secure Boot, and Confidential Compute, ensuring authentic, isolated, and confidential operation.

Your work will advance hardware and software security across Android, Windows, and IoT ecosystems. You will guide threat modeling, define security requirements, and collaborate with multi-national teams to shape secure product roadmaps

Qualifications

• Extensive security experience with cryptography, key derivation and management, secure boot, secure manufacturing, and confidentiality.
• Security analysis and cryptographic expertise, including side-channel threats (SPA, DPA, fault injection) and countermeasures.
• Secure system architecture experience with ARM or x86 based SoC security, secure boot, attestation, and update/recovery mechanisms.
• Platform security knowledge across Android, Windows, or IoT-based systems.
• Leadership in technology roadmap planning and cross-national security teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop creative security architecture solutions for SoCs across product segments.
• Address SoC Root of Trust, Secure Boot, Key Management, authentication, and encryption strategies.
• Architect hardware and software security solutions ensuring privilege management, isolation, and confidentiality.
• Perform threat modeling and define security requirements in collaboration with peers.

Skills

Applied Cryptography

Key Derivation & Management

Secure Boot

Secure Manufacturing

Confidentiality

Job description

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Security Architect to design and implement robust security architectures for modern SoCs. You will lead efforts across Root of Trust, Secure Boot, and Confidential Compute, ensuring authentic, isolated, and confidential operation.

Your work will advance hardware and software security across Android, Windows, and IoT ecosystems. You will guide threat modeling, define security requirements, and collaborate with multi-national teams to shape secure product roadmaps