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Offensive Hardware Security Engineer, Platform Security
Menlo Ventures PortfolioNew York, NY · full time · Senior
$320,000 – $405,000
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What this role is
This role involves conducting in-depth security audits of hardware, firmware, and operating systems to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities before they reach production. It suits experienced systems security engineers who want hands-on responsibility for securing critical infrastructure from the silicon up.
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What they ask for
Required
- Hands-on vulnerability auditing experience on security-critical systems
- Secure boot, measured boot, and attestation technology experience
- Cryptographic protocols and hardware security modules knowledge
- UEFI/BIOS or embedded firmware security experience
- C and Assembly proficiency
- Firmware vulnerability assessment and threat modeling knowledge
- Cross-functional hardware and software collaboration ability
Nice to have
- 8+ years systems security experience with 5+ years in low-level security
- Rust or Go code audit capability
- Binary reverse engineering ability
- Fault injection and side-channel attack experience
- Silicon root of trust auditing experience
- Confidential computing and TEE auditing experience
- Formal verification or security proof background
- 5+ first-author talks at top-tier security conferences
- LLM-based security automation experience
- Large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure security experience
- AI/ML infrastructure security experience