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    Senior Security Engineer, Device/Hardware

    EngineeringSeniorFull-timePosted todayNew

    Salary

    $146k–$146k

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    Location

    Work from anywhere

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    Time zone

    Not specified on the listing

    Posted

    Oct 16, 2026

    Verified Oct 16, 2026 by Jeff

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    About the role

    Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses, across a wide range of industries.

    As a Security Engineer, Hardware Security, you will be a key member of the Product Security Team and the primary Security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, focusing on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable secure-by-default components.

    This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence, focusing on design, automation, and enablement.

    What you'll do

    • Build the hardware and embedded security baseline and process across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing.
    • Drive relationships with the hardware engineering team to ensure findings are prioritized, validated and remediated.
    • Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle including designing, manufacturing, deployment, updating, and decommissioning.
    • Lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
    • Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, firmware interfaces, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments.
    • Drive end-to-end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security infrastructure.

    What they're looking for

    • 5+ years of experience in Hardware Security, including creating security by design patterns into new devices and platforms.
    • 5+ years of experience working with product teams creating security designs and providing security requirements.
    • 5+ years of hands-on development experience in programming languages like Python and C/C++.
    • Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning concepts.
    • Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, reviewing, and validating security controls for hardware and low-level system architectures.
    • Experience in cloud security, runtime security, supply chain security, and application security best practices.
    • The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

    Benefits, as listed

    Health care benefitsPharmacy benefitsOptical care benefitsDental care benefitsPaid time offSick time offShort-term disability coverageLong-term disability coverageLife insurance401k contribution

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