Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platforms Security

Google LLC; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead hardware security across its fleet, including Roots of Trust and post‑quantum readiness. You will design secure architectures with hardware teams, integrate software, firmware, and utilities for security chips, BIOS, and OS kernels, and drive cryptographic services across the platform.

The role requires advanced experience with bare‑metal/RTOS systems, CI/CD enhancements, and mentoring across distributed teams, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Embedded Systems, Security Standards and C, C++, and Rust.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for hardware security across Google's fleet, leading transitions to open-source Roots of Trust (Caliptra, OpenTitan) and Post‑Quantum Cryptography readiness.
• Co‑design secure architectures with hardware teams, deploying critical software, firmware, and utilities for custom security chips, BIOS, and OS kernels.
• Connect bare-metal/RTOS systems (Rust/C, SPI, I2C) with fleet-wide cryptographic services, including CA operations, attestation, and credential binding.
• Represent Google in the hardware security ecosystem, driving community roadmaps and implementations for standards like OpenTitan, Caliptra, and TPM.
• Guide distributed teams through complex, high‑impact deliverables from conception to deployment. Elevate engineering standards through modern CI/CD, automated hardware‑in‑the‑loop testing, cross‑functional alignment, and proactive mentorship of junior and mid‑level engineers.

Skills

Embedded Systems

Security Standards

C

C++

Rust

Design and Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platforms Security

Location

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level

Advanced

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Embedded Systems, Security Standards and C, C++, and Rust.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross‑business projects.
• Experience in Cryptographic Algorithms, and Hardware Design.

About the Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing an essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware, our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Scope

• Build the foundational layer: Deploy authenticated Roots of Trust and trusted execution environments into data centre silicon.
• Engineer resilience: Scale cutting-edge firmware, drivers, and reliability platforms across millions of machines.
• Shape standards: Represent Google within open-source initiatives like OpenTitan, Caliptra, and OCP.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for hardware security across Google's fleet, leading transitions to open-source Roots of Trust (Caliptra, OpenTitan) and Post‑Quantum Cryptography readiness.
• Co‑design secure architectures with hardware teams, deploying critical software, firmware, and utilities for custom security chips, BIOS, and OS kernels.
• Connect bare-metal/RTOS systems (Rust/C, SPI, I2C) with fleet-wide cryptographic services, including CA operations, attestation, and credential binding.
• Represent Google in the hardware security ecosystem, driving community roadmaps and implementations for standards like OpenTitan, Caliptra, and TPM.
• Guide distributed teams through complex, high‑impact deliverables from conception to deployment. Elevate engineering standards through modern CI/CD, automated hardware‑in‑the-loop testing, cross‑functional alignment, and proactive mentorship of junior and mid‑level engineers.

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Locations

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level

Advanced Experience owning outcomes and decision‑making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Compensation

• US Salary: $262,000 - $364,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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