Software Engineer II, Device Security

Humanoid • San Diego, CA

1d • $123,000 - $154,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Humanoid is hiring a Software Engineer II for its Platform Infrastructure team in San Diego. The role helps build software and tools that enable robots to run trusted software on trusted hardware, working with security, firmware, and platform engineers across the device lifecycle. The team supports HMND-01, Humanoid’s humanoid platform deployed in real industrial environments.

The engineer will contribute to trusted boot and device provisioning, device trust and key protection, and device key management. The role involves working with NVIDIA secure boot and UEFI, hardware roots of trust such as TPMs, security technologies such as ARM TrustZone, and HSMs. The engineer will write, test, and debug software and scripts in Linux, investigate issues across software and hardware, and help reduce attack surfaces across device software, boot flows, and supporting tools.

The role collaborates with security, firmware, cloud, manufacturing, and other engineering teams through design discussions, code reviews, and documentation. The engineer is expected to own well-scoped projects from design through implementation and testing, with input from experienced teammates. This position is based on-site at the San Diego office.

Requirements

• Typically 1–3 years of full-time experience building, testing, and maintaining production-quality software, or equivalent experience.
• Strong foundation in object-oriented programming and software design.
• Ability to read and reason about code, identify logic errors, and learn to contribute across C++, Python, and Rust codebases; prior experience in all three languages is not required.
• B.S. or M.S. in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools and ability to understand, review, and validate the code they produce.
• Familiarity with authentication, encryption, cryptographic keys, and trust boundaries, and interest in applying them to hardware devices.
• Comfort working in Linux and using scripting languages such as Python or Bash to automate tasks, build tools, and investigate problems.
• Thoughtful approach to unfamiliar problems, attention to detail, clear communication, willingness to seek feedback, and ability to follow work through.
• Ability to work on-site at the San Diego office.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with key management.
• Experience with NVIDIA platforms, such as Jetson.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain software and tools for trusted boot and device provisioning, including work with NVIDIA secure boot and UEFI.
• Help bring up secure boot flows on new devices and build tooling to provision and verify device credentials.
• Contribute to device trust and key protection using hardware roots of trust, including TPMs, and security technologies such as ARM TrustZone.
• Contribute to device key management using HSMs.
• Write, test, and debug software and scripts in Linux, and investigate issues across software and hardware.
• Identify and reduce attack surfaces across device software, boot flows, and supporting tools.
• Collaborate with security, firmware, cloud, manufacturing, and other engineering teams through design discussions, code reviews, and documentation.
• Own well-scoped projects from design through implementation and testing, with input from experienced teammates.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage for US-based employees, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, virtual care, and employee assistance resources.
• 23 days of accrued PTO, separate sick leave, and paid company holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Equity included.
• Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks in-office.
• Collaboration with engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.
• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level