Security Engineer, Device/Hardware

Motive•Austin, TX

10d

About The Position

As a Security Engineer, Hardware Security, you will be a key member of the Product Security Team and the primary security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams. You will focus on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable secure-by-default components—such as libraries, services, frameworks, and other components—that help hardware engineers ship products securely. This strategic and technical role involves working across teams to influence security and drive the hardware security initiative through programs, engineering, design, automation, and enablement. The role builds hardware and embedded security practices for Motive devices across boot chains, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing. It also addresses device security throughout the product lifecycle, from design and manufacturing through deployment, updating, and decommissioning, including devices connected to cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in hardware security, including creating security-by-design patterns for new devices and platforms.
At least 5 years of experience working with product teams to create security designs and provide security requirements.
At least 5 years of hands-on development experience with programming languages such as Python and C/C++.
Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning concepts.
Hands-on experience designing, reviewing, and validating security controls for hardware and low-level system architectures.
Experience with cloud security, runtime security, supply chain security, and application security best practices.

Responsibilities

Build the hardware and embedded security baseline and processes across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing.
Partner with hardware engineering to ensure security findings are prioritized, validated, and remediated.
Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle, including design, manufacturing, deployment, updating, and decommissioning.
Lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, firmware interfaces, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments.
Drive end-to-end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security infrastructure.