Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices
Key Skills for This Role
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Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years experience building secure embedded firmware for constrained environments
- Deep programming experience in C, C++, or Rust.
- You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have
- A strong track record of designing, implementing, debugging, and shipping production systems software.
- Hands-on experience developing security-critical software or firmware within, or directly adjacent to, an HSM, secure element, TEE, or hardware root of trust.
- Experience developing one or more of the following:
- HSM firmware or trusted applications
- Cryptographic mechanisms or hardware-accelerated cryptographic services
- HSM device drivers, host libraries, SDKs, or middleware
- PKCS#11 providers, mechanisms, or integrations
- Secure key-provisioning or key-injection protocols
- HSM-backed certificate authority or code-signing systems
- Signing-policy enforcement within a hardware-backed trust boundary
- Strong knowledge of applied cryptography, digital signatures, key hierarchies, secure key management, and cryptographic protocol design.
- Experience with PKI, X.509 certificates, certificate authorities, certificate issuance, and certificate lifecycle protocols.
- Familiarity with secure boot, measured boot, device identity, remote attestation, or hardware-backed storage.
- Experience reasoning about concurrency, memory safety, privilege separation, hardware interfaces, failure modes, and side-channel or physical attack considerations.
- The ability to evaluate security designs and personally implement the software required to realize them.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across hardware, firmware, backend, and product teams.
- Additional Experience That May Be Helpful
- Firmware development for ARM TrustZone or another trusted execution environment.
- Experience with commercial or cloud HSM platforms such as Thales Luna, Entrust/nShield, Utimaco, Marvell LiquidSecurity, AWS CloudHSM, or comparable systems.
- Experience with PKCS#11, KMIP, OpenSSL providers or engines, secure-element APIs, or platform-native key-storage frameworks.
- Device manufacturing, secure provisioning, factory restore, or silicon bring-up experience.
- Secure boot ROM, bootloader, firmware-signing, anti-rollback, or authenticated-update development.
- Developing trusted applications or cryptographic services inside an HSM or secure coprocessor.
- Hardware/software co-design involving cryptographic accelerators, secure processors, or custom silicon.
- Multi-party authorization, quorum-controlled deployments, tamper-resistant audit mechanisms, or attestable policy systems.
- Secure or private storage systems based on hardware-protected keys.
- Experience sustaining high-assurance security software in production.
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