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Cisco Senior Hardware Security Engineer United States, Georgia, Atlanta 107511473
27.01.2025
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You Will:
- Collaborate with our Hardware Engineering and Cisco Security teams on component selection relating to secure boot and roots of trust
- Develop and maintain software for security chips, ranging from Linux device drivers to cloud authentication mechanisms to protect against attacks on hardware systems
- Design and implement secure hardware architectures
- Troubleshoot at the hardware and software level when things don’t go quite as planned
- Collaborate with Platform Engineers across product teams to continually improve our 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
- Proven experience programming in C or C++
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with software development focused on hardware security
- Experience with Yocto build systems, Jenkins automation, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes
- Have 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
- Are comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack
- Capable of reading and advising on board-level designs, schematics, and layouts
- Skilled at reworking boards and soldering, such as SMT components
- 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.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience interacting with software and hardware components using OpenSSL for cryptographic operations and secure communications.
- Proficiency in writing and implementing limited data hygiene practices on devices, ensuring compliance with best data security and integrity practices.
- Proven experience 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
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