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Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a team of firmware engineers while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.
- Write firmware code, conduct code reviews, and resolve low-level technical challenges.
- Architect and develop secure embedded software, including Secure Boot, hardware Root of Trust, and verified boot pipelines.
- Implement SPDM attestation for device authentication and remote measurement.
- Design secure factory and field provisioning workflows.
- Maintain cryptographic firmware signing infrastructure, secure update pipelines, and revocation mechanisms.
- Diagnose hardware/software and cryptographic failures using JTAG, GDB, and logic analyzers.
- Collaborate with security experts, hardware engineers, and system architects on roadmaps and embedded security solutions.
- Contribute to open-source security standards or embedded projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 20+ years of embedded software development experience with a strong C/C++ foundation.
- Proven experience managing and leading engineering teams while remaining active in software development and system architecture.
- Expertise in Secure Boot, Root of Trust, cryptographic security principles, SPDM, secure provisioning, HSM integration, secure key storage, firmware signing, and lifecycle revocation architectures.
- Extensive experience with RTOS, Linux kernel, device drivers, and hardware bring-up using Board Support Packages.
- Strong knowledge of SPI, I2C, UART, USB, PCIe, and Ethernet; PCIe root port and SR-IOV knowledge is a plus.
- Familiarity with Yocto, Buildroot, JTAG, and GDB.
- Preferred experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and hardware security accelerators.
Benefits
- Every employee holds equity in the company.
- The company provides a diverse, collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and mutual support.
- Axiado is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About Axiado
Axiado builds hardware-anchored platform security for servers and infrastructure, centered on its Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) processor with root-of-trust functions and AI-based threat detection. It sells security silicon, firmware, and reference platforms to server and network equipment makers and cloud providers integrating baseboard management and platform resiliency. The company was founded in 2017, is privately held, and is headquartered in San Jose, California.