Principal Engineer, Security Architecture

Samsung Research America•Mountain View, CA

3h•$203,700 - $305,500•Onsite

About The Position

Samsung KNOX™ is Samsung’s guarantee of security, and a secure device gives you the freedom to work and play how, where, and when you want. Samsung Knox consists of a highly secure platform built into a variety of Samsung devices, including Samsung’s mobile phones and laptop computers. Come join the Samsung KNOX team and help us define and develop the future role of security and productivity for Samsung devices and services! In this position, the security architecture engineer will ideate and architect new enterprise security and privacy features for Samsung’s mobile products with a focus on understanding high-assurance customer security needs, translating them into technical requirements with a product concept and a business case, work with product management to align on the product, and with security engineering teams on solutions that satisfy the technical requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience combination of education, training and experience
16+ years of related industry experience
Understanding of security architecture principles including threat, trust, and security models, access control and cryptography primitives
Understanding of Android (or alternate mobile) software stacks, access controls, and device management
Experience in security architecture, enterprise mobility, and user privacy
Enterprise mobile security architecture and feature design
Direct engagement with security-critical customer verticals, including high-assurance customers, to understand security requirements and use cases
Translating customer needs into security requirements and technical designs
Working with product management and global engineering teams to deliver security solutions
Communicating security requirements and design tradeoffs to customers and engineering teams

Responsibilities

Work directly with high-assurance enterprise customers to understand security and privacy requirements
Translate customer security and privacy needs into technical security requirements, a product concept, and a business case for Samsung mobile products
Communicate customer motivations and security requirements clearly to product management and technical designs to global development teams
Design and architect enterprise security and privacy features that address customer requirements
Work with product management and security engineering teams to refine proposals and prioritize solutions
Provide expert security guidance to global development teams and ensure customer security requirements are met through development
Keep up-to-date on evolving enterprise mobile security needs and emerging threats and apply insights to feature direction
Identify partnership opportunities with companies serving similar customer verticals
Validate and iterate on security feature prototypes with customers and partners