4 days ago
Base Salary
$341k - $402k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and protected workload execution.
- Design and build hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environment, and hardware-backed isolation capabilities.
- Architect trust verification across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries.
- Shape platform integrity, secure and measured boot, device identity, provisioning, and hardware-rooted security capabilities with hardware and firmware teams.
- Design secure handling of cryptographic keys, credentials, identities, certificates, and trusted-computing provisioning.
- Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, host software, infrastructure, and workload execution.
- Develop systems software, security tooling, and automation for reliable operation of hardware-backed security at scale.
- Lead security-sensitive designs across organizational boundaries and communicate trust models, architecture, tradeoffs, and risk to technical and security leadership.
Requirements
- 6+ years of systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in low-level systems security, firmware security, hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, confidential computing, or related domains.
- Experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture across multiple hardware and software layers.
- Strong understanding of roots of trust, platform integrity, secure or measured boot, device identity, hardware-backed attestation, cryptographic systems, key management, certificate lifecycle, and secure provisioning.
- Experience developing low-level systems software, security tooling, firmware, or production automation using languages such as C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, or similar.
- Ability to threat model complex systems and reason about attacks spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, infrastructure, and application workloads.
- Experience leading ambiguous cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing specialized engineering teams.
- Experience developing or securing firmware, platform initialization, device security, hardware-backed security mechanisms, bare-metal lifecycle security, or large-scale compute environments is valuable.
Benefits
- Competitive total cash salary range of $341,400-$401,600 for U.S.-based candidates, with potential bonus value incorporated into base pay.
- Long-Term Incentive Program and a robust suite of employee benefits.
- Hiring is prioritized in or near the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Dallas.
- International compensation varies based on local market dynamics.
- The role may require U.S. Person status or eligibility for an applicable export license due to U.S. export control requirements.
About Groq
Groq designs and operates AI inference hardware and cloud services built around its LPU architecture, aimed at developers and enterprises running large language models and other ML workloads. It generates revenue by selling processors and offering pay-as-you-go inference through its hosted platform and APIs. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is privately held.