Senior Hardware Security Engineer

Details

Build the hardware-rooted security foundations that protect sensitive AI workloads across hardware and software boundaries. This role sets technical direction and builds security capabilities spanning firmware security, hardware trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and protected workload execution. The role works closely with hardware, firmware, systems, platform, and security engineering teams to solve complex security challenges at the foundation of the computing stack.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and own architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and protected workload execution.
• Design and build security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and hardware-backed isolation.
• Architect attestation capabilities that establish and verify trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to shape platform integrity, secure and measured boot, device identity, and other hardware-rooted security capabilities.
• Design security capabilities that enable protected workload execution while maintaining trust throughout the workload lifecycle.
• Design secure approaches for cryptographic key material, credentials, identity, certificates, and provisioning within trusted computing environments.
• Shape security for the lifecycle of trusted compute infrastructure, from provisioning and platform initialization through operation and decommissioning.
• Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, host software, and workload execution, identifying systemic risks and driving durable mitigations.
• Develop systems software, security tooling, and automation that make hardware-backed security capabilities reliable and operable at scale.
• Lead security-sensitive designs across organizational boundaries, translating complex hardware and systems risks into practical engineering decisions.
• Establish technical patterns and influence security direction across hardware, firmware, systems, platform, and security engineering.
• Partner across engineering and security to build capabilities that strengthen customer trust, platform reliability, and support compliance requirements.
• Clearly communicate trust models, security architecture, technical tradeoffs, and risk to engineers, technical leaders, and security leadership.

Requirements

• 6+ years of systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering experience, with deep expertise in low-level systems security and experience with hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, confidential computing, or related technologies.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture spanning multiple layers of the hardware and software stack.
• Deep expertise in firmware security, hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, protected workload execution, or closely related low-level security domains.
• Deep understanding of hardware-rooted trust, including roots of trust, platform integrity, secure or measured boot, device identity, and hardware-backed attestation.
• Experience designing or implementing attestation systems and reasoning about trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries.
• Strong understanding of firmware and low-level systems security, including boot chains, platform integrity, and security boundaries between hardware and software.
• Strong understanding of cryptographic systems, key management, certificate lifecycle, secure credential management, and secure provisioning in trusted computing environments.
• Strong systems engineering skills, with experience developing low-level systems software, security tooling, firmware, or production automation in C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, or similar languages.
• 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 engineering direction across highly specialized engineering disciplines.
• Ability to communicate complex trust models, security architecture, and technical risk clearly to different audiences.
• Experience developing or securing firmware, platform initialization, device security, or hardware-backed security mechanisms is valuable.
• Experience integrating hardware-rooted trust, attestation, or confidential computing capabilities with higher-level infrastructure, identity, key-management, or workload systems is valuable.
• Experience with bare-metal lifecycle security or securing large-scale compute environments is valuable.

Compensation

The total cash salary range is $341,400–$401,600, inclusive of potential bonus value. Individual placement is determined by geographic location, experience, skills, and alignment with internal compensation standards. This range applies to candidates located in the United States. International compensation varies based on local market dynamics. Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive Program and employee benefits.

Additional Information

This position may require access to technology or information subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations. Candidates must qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes or otherwise be eligible for an applicable export license. Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.