Security Engineer, Hardware/Firmware

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of coding experience in one or more general-purpose languages.
• 2 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
• 2 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
• Experience with both offensive and defensive security methods.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with OS hardening, specifically Linux or BSD-variants.
• Experience with low-level C/Assembly.
• Experience working within Kernel Programming, Systems Engineering, Systems Internals, Hardware Programming, Hardware System Architecture.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

What You'll Be Doing

• Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
• Work with platform engineering teams to shape the security of new and changing platforms (hardware, firmware).
• Design and engineer the necessary security controls for identified risks.
• Develop threat models and security requirements to best understand who/what we need to protect against and how systems should be protected.
• Assess existing production infrastructure to identify latent and/or systemic issues and drive remediation efforts to address them.

Perks and Benefits

• Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile is subject to Google's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• English proficiency is required for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
• Google does not accept agency resumes.