MP
$320,000 – $405,000
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What this role is
This role involves designing security architectures for the hardware and firmware underpinning AI training infrastructure, protecting systems from the bootloader up through the operating system. It suits engineers with deep expertise in low-level security who can balance stringent integrity requirements against the performance demands of large-scale computing.
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What they ask for
Required
- Hands-on experience with secure boot, measured boot, and attestation technologies
- Strong understanding of cryptographic protocols and hardware security modules
- Experience with UEFI/BIOS or embedded firmware security and chain of trust
- Low-level programming proficiency in C, Rust, or Assembly
- Firmware vulnerability assessment and threat modeling experience
- Track record designing security architectures for distributed systems
- Supply chain security experience
- Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries
- Knowledge of NIST firmware security guidelines and hardware security frameworks
Nice to have
- 8+ years in systems security with 5+ years on firmware and hardware security
- Confidential computing and hardware-based TEE experience
- SLSA framework and software supply chain security standards knowledge
- Large-scale HPC or cloud infrastructure security experience
- Open-source security contributions (coreboot, CHIPSEC)
- Formal verification or security proof background
- Silicon root of trust implementation experience
- Foundational technical design and vendor collaboration experience
- AI/ML infrastructure security background