Server SoC Security Architect

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

RSU grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an experienced SoC Security Architect to design and implement security architectures for next-generation datacenter-level SoCs.

The role focuses on confidential computing platforms, trust boundaries, and secure boot, with collaboration across hardware, firmware, and software teams. The ideal candidate has strong experience in SoC security architecture, threat modeling, and security requirements development, and will drive security across lifecycle states

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of Hardware/Software/Systems Engineering experience.
• Master's degree with 5+ years of Hardware/Software/Systems Engineering experience.
• PhD with 4+ years of Hardware/Software/Systems Engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Define SoC and system-level security architecture for confidential computing platforms, including trust boundaries and isolation domains.
• Architect platform root-of-trust strategy and chain-of-trust across boot, runtime, attestation, and update flows.
• Define security architecture for cryptographic services, key lifecycle management, identity, provisioning, and anti-rollback protections.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Confidential computing

Cross-functional collaboration

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary

Our Mission

We are dedicated to transforming the industry by reimagining silicon and developing next-generation computing platforms. By joining our team, you’ll collaborate with world‑class engineers to create innovative solutions that push the limits of performance, energy efficiency and scalability with highest security assurance for all stakeholders.

Position: SoC Security Architect

We are seeking experienced SoC Security Architects to join our team. If you possess an understanding of hardware security architecture and have a passion for architecting and designing complex System on Chips (SoCs) at advanced process nodes, we would be pleased to hear from you. This critical role involves architecting the next-generation security system and hardware infrastructure by collaborating with other platform architects to enable secure debug, and manageability features while ensuring compliance with industry standards. The work performed will lead to lower time to resolve issues and improve data center uptime by providing secure solutions that can be used in environments closer to, if not in, the production environments where the issues occur.

The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of SoC architecture for datacenter SoCs, HW/SW/System requirements for confidential computing and foundational security, debug, and manageability technologies. Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills are essential for excelling in this position.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware/SoC design for data center environments.
• 2+ years of experience architecting security technologies for data center products.
• Experience architecting foundational SoC security capabilities (for example secure boot, attestation, hardware/firmware provenance, isolation and access control, key management).
• Strong experience with SoC security architecture design and/or implementation.
• Proven threat modeling and security requirements development skills.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills across engineering and leadership audiences.
• Experience in architecting/designing foundational security technologies for a data center SoC (e.g., secure debug, attestation, HW & SW supply chain provenance, access control/isolation primitives).
• 5+ years in data center hardware architecture and design.
• Strong understanding of data center system architecture from edge to hyperscale.
• Knowledge of product lifecycle security across manufacturing, deployment, ownership transfer, service/repair, and decommissioning states.
• Experience with security architecture for heterogeneous multi-chiplet or large-scale SoC platforms.
• Track record delivering security architecture in hyperscale or cloud-class products.
• Experience engaging with standards bodies and applying industry security frameworks to product architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Define SoC and system-level security architecture for confidential computing platforms, including trust boundaries, isolation domains, and security invariants.
• Architect platform root-of-trust strategy and chain-of-trust across boot, runtime, attestation, and update flows.
• Define security architecture for cryptographic services, key lifecycle management, identity, provisioning, and anti-rollback protections.
• Develop threat models and derive product security requirements mapped to architectural controls and validation strategy.
• Drive cross-functional security alignment across hardware, firmware, software, validation, and product teams.
• Monitor evolving standards, security trends, and emerging threats to proactively harden platform architecture.
• Ensure architecture supports secure operations across lifecycle states and customer deployment models.
• Produce clear architecture specs, security analyses, and design guidance for internal and external stakeholders.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [e-mail] or call Qualcomm's toll‑free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$209,300.00 - $313,900.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.

• We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).
• In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.