Amazon
Security Engineer SoC, Devices and Services Security
$159K–$202K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in any combination of the listed experience areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Identifies and mitigates security flaws in chips, hardware architectures, and low-level software used in Amazon devices through reviews, testing, and security guidance.
What you'll do
- Guide device security across design, threat modeling, code reviews, testing, and fuzzing; develop tools and techniques to improve security at scale.
- Advise product teams, identify risks, and collaborate on mitigations and secure chip architecture.
- Develop security policies, procedures, and training materials, and participate in projects developing new intellectual property.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, and network security experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Knowledge of hardware security mechanisms, including secure boot and trusted execution environments.
- Knowledge of operating system internals, especially Linux and common RTOS environments; semiconductor reverse engineering.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Linux bash; hardware/system/network security, code review, exploit development, fault injection, or side-channel attacks and mitigations.
Pay
159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Perl, Linux bash, Linux, RTOS
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