Senior Silicon Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years for each of the stated security and coding experience areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and assess security architecture, silicon design, and verification for open-source silicon roots of trust, while coordinating verification work across partners and vendors.
What you'll do
- Develop security architecture, silicon design, and verification for Caliptra and OpenTitan roots of trust.
- Oversee silicon design verification and maintenance of EDA tool workflows in an open-source code-hosting context; drive vendor verification work.
- Assess vulnerabilities in silicon root-of-trust designs and work across partner companies on security silicon.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
- 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
- 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages; experience with EDA tools and typical ASIC design and verification flows.
Nice to have
- Experience with hardware, firmware, or systems programming.
- Experience with hardware system architecture or risk assessment and threat models.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Caliptra, OpenTitan, EDA tools, ASIC
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