Staff Security Architect (Product/Device Security)

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin is seeking a Staff Security Architect at its U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.

The role focuses on shaping secure architectures and engineering practices across major AOEM programs, providing technical direction and guidance throughout product lifecycles. The position requires leading complex security problems, aligning security with business objectives, and influencing decisions across software, systems, hardware, and verification teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 14 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience in product security architecture, threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure design reviews.
• Ability to influence engineering decisions and communicate security risk to stakeholders.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency with high-level languages including C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a recognized product security authority for AOEM products and programs.
• Provide technical leadership on security projects and programs.
• Define security objectives, organize work, and develop engineering standards.
• Develop roadmaps for product security across multiple lines.
• Lead threat analysis, risk assessments, and vulnerability analysis.
• Lead security architecture reviews and define system-wide mitigations.
• Promote policies and guidelines for secure product development across teams.
• Contribute to product development plans, feasibility studies, and security roadmaps.
• Represent Garmin in technical security discussions with customers and partners.

Skills

Product security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Mentoring

Security risk assessment

Programming languages (C/C++/C#/Rust/P

Education

Bachelor’s degree

14+ years engineering experience

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-time

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Staff Security Architect at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for applying product security expertise to shape secure architectures, technical direction, and engineering practices across major AOEM products and programs.

The Staff Security Architect leads the resolution of complex, cross-disciplinary security problems; translates long-range product and business objectives into practical security strategies; and influences technical decisions on organizational objectives, customer commitments, and regulatory obligations.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a recognized product security authority for AOEM products and programs, providing expert guidance for architecture, design, implementation, integration, production, and product lifetime support
• Exercise a significant degree of technical leadership on projects and programs
• Determine security objectives, organize complex security work, and develop standards and guides for engineering activities
• Develop and maintain product security strategies and roadmaps across multiple product lines, aligning security direction with business objectives, customer commitments, production considerations, and applicable regulatory requirements
• Understand current and emerging security threats and technologies; lead threat analysis and risk assessments, vulnerability analysis, and security trade-off decisions based on threat likelihood, business impact, technical feasibility, and residual risk
• Lead security architecture and design reviews spanning multiple engineering disciplines; identify systemic risks, define pragmatic mitigations, establish acceptance criteria, and guide full-system security architecture for reuse, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Define and promote policies, processes, standards, methods, and guidelines that integrate security into product development and enable consistent application across projects, product lines, suppliers, and engineering organizations
• Provide substantial technical input to product development plans, concept documents, feasibility assessments, sourcing decisions, customer responses, and security roadmaps; evaluate business pursuits and awarded projects and recommend courses of action needed to obtain desired results
• Evaluate, recommend, and promote security engineering tools, reusable components, automation, and validated design patterns that improve security outcomes and engineering efficiencyPartner across software, systems, hardware, verification, manufacturing, operations, quality, program management, legal/compliance, customers, and suppliers to resolve security issues that cross organizational or technical boundaries
• Represent Garmin effectively in technical security discussions with customers, suppliers, industry partners, peer groups, and regulating or standard organizations when assigned
• Provide security-focused training and awareness and contribute to the growth of security knowledge and capability across engineering teams

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND a minimum of 14 years relevant engineering experience
• Relevant product security or information security experience, including working knowledge of cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), software and application security (AppSec), secure software development practices, and hardware-based security controls
• Demonstrates expertise in product security architecture, threat modeling and risk assessment, security requirements and acceptance criteria, secure design review, vulnerability management, security verification planning, and pragmatic risk mitigation
• Demonstrates ability to lead major technical efforts, influence cross-functional engineering decisions, author standards and guidance, and communicate security risk and recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders
• Demonstrates strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively and professionally with others under challenging circumstances
• Must possess detailed knowledge and experience with high-level language structure in C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, and/or Java relevant to Garmin business needs
• Capable of mentoring junior engineer associates in security engineering practices
• Must possess pragmatic business analysis skills and apply them to threat prioritization, architecture trade-offs, and security investment decisions

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits