Job Description
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Application window has been extended and expected to close on 1/3/2025.
Hybrid San Francisco role.
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 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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