6 hours ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$174k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement, configure, and validate platform security features for AI systems on internal test platforms.
- Conduct security assessments of platforms, firmware, and AI systems and communicate findings and remediation.
- Develop, review, apply, and verify security fixes on real hardware.
- Analyze, reproduce, and drive resolution of security issues reported by internal teams, customers, and researchers.
- Support customer security requirements and respond to customer security inquiries and findings.
- Establish and maintain secure builds and AI harnesses.
- Provision and manage keys, certificates, and device identities for secure boot, attestation, and platform bring-up.
- Develop tooling and automation to improve the efficiency and repeatability of security testing and remediation.
- Partner with architecture, firmware, and software teams to design, implement, and verify fixes.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering tooling to accelerate assessment, remediation, and documentation.
Requirements
- Multiple years of experience in security engineering or platform, firmware, or software engineering with a security focus.
- Experience securing and debugging systems across hardware, firmware, and software, including security assessment, vulnerability analysis, and developing and applying fixes.
- Experience provisioning and managing keys, certificates, and device identities, including secure boot signing, attestation, and PKI.
- Understanding of secure boot, attestation, cryptography, memory safety, and isolation.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and at least one scripting language such as Python, with comfort in Linux environments.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development tooling in engineering work.
- Experience securing AI/ML workloads or working on AI training or inference infrastructure, including confidential computing and trusted execution environments.
- Familiarity with GPU and accelerator platforms, SR-IOV, SIOV, MIG, firmware, PCIe, CXL, and related security features.
- Familiarity with supply-chain integrity practices including SBOM, build provenance, and reproducible builds.
- Familiarity with Caliptra, OpenBMC, coreboot, EDK II, and openSIL.
- Experience supporting external security audits, red teams, or independent platform assessments, and knowledge of TCG, NIST, and OCP frameworks.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to drive issues to resolution across teams and with customers.
Benefits
- San Diego, California is the preferred location, with other AMD US locations considered for the right candidate.
- AMD benefits are described in its benefits-at-a-glance materials.
About AMD
AMD designs and sells CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive/embedded computing products for PCs, data centers, gaming, and edge devices. Its portfolio includes Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon and Instinct graphics, and adaptive SoCs from its Xilinx acquisition, sold to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company on NASDAQ and supplies semi-custom chips for major game consoles.