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As a member of the hardware security team, you will have a substantial impact on the security of millions of Meraki users all around the world. You will also take help in building new Meraki products by integrating everything from boot-loaders to kernels on prototype hardware. Our device firmware is built on Linux and open-source software. We work individually and in small teams to release several new products each year.
You Will:
- Collaborate with our Hardware Engineering and Cisco Security teams on component selection related to secure boot and roots of trust
- Develop and maintain software for security chips, including Linux device drivers and cloud authentication mechanisms to protect against hardware system attacks
- Design and implement secure hardware architectures
- Troubleshoot at the hardware and software level when challenges arise
- Collaborate with various Engineers across product teams to improve firmware design, development, and deployment practices
- Work with manufacturing teams to ensure security is maintained throughout the production process
- Stay up-to-date on the latest emerging hardware security threats and technologies
You Have:
- Proven experience programming in C or C++
- Minimum of 4 years of experience with software development focused on hardware security
- Familiarity with Yocto build systems, Jenkins automation, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes
- A good understanding of Unix-based OS and network fundamentals
- Experience with integrating Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and implementing Secure Boot
- Understanding of common serial bus protocols like I2C, SPI, and LPC
- Comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack
- Capability to read and advise on board-level designs, schematics, and layouts
- Skills in reworking boards and soldering, such as handling SMT components
- Experience in building and modifying boot-loaders and device drivers
- Familiarity with hardware security techniques and technologies, such as TrustZone, crypto modules, hardware root of trust, and anti-tampering measures
- Experience interacting with software and hardware components using OpenSSL for cryptographic operations and secure communications
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Bonus If You Have:
- Proficiency in writing and implementing limited data hygiene practices on devices, ensuring compliance with best data security and integrity practices.
- Interests with CPLDs and FPGAs programming and debugging
- Experience writing device drivers
- Familiarity with Assembly or Python programming
- Interests in hardware hacking, reverse engineering, and information security
- Delight in breaking things to uncover security vulnerabilities
Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!!
We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.
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Compensation Range:
$157,400—$222,200 USD
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