Groq
Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Confidential Computing
$341K–$402K
New York, United States +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- New York, United States
Dallas, United States
San Francisco, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes or otherwise be eligible for an applicable export license; non-U.S. postings require meeting relevant export control eligibility criteria.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds hardware-rooted security capabilities that protect sensitive AI workloads across hardware, firmware, systems software, and workload execution.
What you'll do
- Architect trust, attestation, trusted execution, isolation, and protected workload execution across platform layers.
- Partner with hardware, firmware, and systems teams on platform integrity, secure boot, device identity, cryptographic provisioning, and lifecycle security.
- Lead threat modeling, security tooling and automation, and cross-functional security architecture decisions.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in low-level systems security and hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, confidential computing, or related domains.
- Experience owning complex security architecture and setting technical direction across hardware and software layers.
- Strong knowledge of firmware security, boot chains, platform integrity, cryptographic systems, key management, and secure provisioning.
- Systems engineering skills, including low-level software, firmware, tooling, or automation in C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, or similar languages.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating hardware-rooted trust or confidential computing with infrastructure, identity, key-management, or workload systems.
- Experience with bare-metal lifecycle security or large-scale compute environments.
Pay
$341,400 - $401,600 total cash salary range, inclusive of potential bonus value
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Go, Python
AI focus
Builds security capabilities protecting sensitive AI workloads; the posting also says AI tools may assist with recruiting activities.
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