Security Engineer IV

Seattle, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.

Position: Security Engineer IV

Location: Seattle WA

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

We are seeking a Hardware Security Engineer to join our dynamic team focused on device security and hardware validation.
This role is essential in ensuring our products meet the highest security standards through comprehensive requirement verification security assessment and implementation oversight.
You will work at the intersection of hardware design security engineering and manufacturing processes to deliver secure reliable products to millions of customers worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

This Hardware Security Engineering role focuses on verifying and validating security across the entire hardware lifecycle for the devices.
This role will focus on ensuring that the manufactured hardware meets design specifications and security implementation requirements through systematic evaluation of components and assemblies.
Key responsibilities include ensuring that designs are implemented without unauthorized modifications or component substitutions verifying that all hardware meets established design requirements and testing hardware to ensure security features are properly enforced.
The role also requires reviewing schematics and hardware samples to verify compliance with circuit designs.
You will interface with manufacturers and suppliers directly and will review the security compliance evidence that they provide.
You will also be responsible for identifying hardware backdoors and attempts to circumvent hardware-based security features. Success in this position requires partnering with multiple stakeholders to accomplish these tasks.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related technical field
5 years of experience in hardware security embedded systems security or similar
Experience designing testing and analyzing circuit designs and PCB layouts
Knowledge of threat modeling secure boot implementations and cryptography (RSA AES HMAC PQC)
Experience with manufacturing security processes including secret provisioning and secure production flows
Hands-on experience testing debugging or hacking hardware using common electronics test equipment
Knowledge of circuit designs assess circuit properly
Knowledge of embedded security- how its used for enhancing security
Hands-on experience with common test equipment: Oscilloscopes multimeters microscopes logic analyzers soldering

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degree in relevant technical field or equivalent advanced experience
Knowledge of side-channel attack analysis and associated countermeasures
Knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures especially automated quality inspection techniques
Experience writing technical documents project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
Knowledge of debug interface security (JTAG BDM) anti-rollback mechanisms and fault injection protection
Experience programming in at least one modern language such as C C or Rust

Years of Experience:

5 years ideally- HM is hiring for 2 roles slightly different and wants the total number of years experience to equate to 10 years between the 2 hires

Disqualifies:

NOT looking for cyber security or network security- if this is the only relevant experience will be DQ

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related technical field

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purc...