Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in offensive security research focused on practical, real-world attacks.
• Experience in systems security, particularly in finding and mitigating vulnerabilities at the hardware-software intersection (e.g., Kernel, Hypervisor, Firmware).

Nice to haves

• Experience building or using tools to discover, analyze, or reproduce hardware-level vulnerabilities.
• Understanding of Confidential Compute technologies (Trusted Execution Environments) and microarchitectural concepts including speculative execution and side-channels.
• Proven ability to take responsibility for technical outcomes in high-pressure security environments such as vulnerability response or architectural reviews.
• History of public engagement through published research, conference presentations, or contributions to open-source security projects.
• Ability to provide subject matter expertise to business stakeholders for prioritizing and remediating security risks based on technical impact analysis.

What you'll be doing

• Respond to microarchitectural vulnerabilities by assessing their impact at Google's scale and coordinate remediation with internal teams and external vendors.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and improvements for Confidential CPU, GPU, and TPU environments.
• Research and develop long-term, systematic mitigations such as robust isolation primitives to prevent hardware vulnerabilities from posing significant risk.
• Partner with internal product teams to design applications resilient to modern hardware threats from inception.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors and research institutions to share knowledge, triage impacts, and guide more secure future hardware design.

Perks and benefits

• Opportunity to work in a leading global security team focused on protecting Google users and developers.
• Work environment committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal opportunity employment.
• Support for accommodations during recruitment processes.
• Equity grants provided at the sole discretion of Alphabet Inc. under approved stock plans.
• English proficiency required to facilitate global collaboration.