Apple
Hardware Architect - Information Security
$175K–$325K
Seattle, Washington +1 · Full-time · Posted Nov 11, 2025
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
Sunnyvale, California - Experience
- Minimum 8 years relevant industry work experience.
- Education
- BS in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Architects and delivers future generations of security hardware, from defining specifications and selecting components through production, deployment, validation, and future design improvements.
What you'll do
- Establish the vision for security hardware and translate security features into hardware/software specifications and requirements.
- Lead hardware programs across design, development, manufacturing, and deployment; select components and develop bills of materials.
- Validate system functionality, performance, and reliability, and use feedback and market benchmarks to guide future designs.
What they ask for
- BS in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 8 years relevant industry work experience.
- Ability to develop hardware specifications, select components, create block diagrams and schematics, and lead architecture reviews and system specification approvals.
- Understanding of security architecture and threat models, hardware/software co-design, interface standards, and performance modeling.
Nice to have
- MS in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in system architecture development, including driver and firmware development; Cadence tools or similar are also mentioned.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base pay); $184,700 and $324,800 (base pay)
Tools
Cadence
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