Senior Platform Security Engineer

Role summary / purpose Senior Platform Security Engineer Key responsibilities • Research, design, and develop next-generation technologies that strengthen vehicle access security and prevent theft, unauthorized use, and system compromise. • Create security solutions that establish trust at the lowest levels of the platform, beginning with hardware and firmware. • Drive projects from concept and experimentation through prototyping, validation, production implementation, and deployment. • Collaborate with hardware, embedded software, systems, and product engineering teams to transform security concepts into real-world solutions. • Design and develop secure platform capabilities involving device identity, trusted execution, authentication, cryptography, and hardware-backed security. • Investigate emerging attack techniques targeting connected and electronic vehicle systems and develop new defenses. • Evaluate how attackers might bypass, clone, replay, emulate, or manipulate vehicle access technologies and develop effective countermeasures. • Develop proof-of-concept solutions and advanced prototypes that advance automotive security. • Contribute to platform architecture decisions that shape the long-term security of future vehicle products. • Solve complex technical challenges at the intersection of hardware, firmware, cryptography, and embedded systems. Requirements – education & experience • Bachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant technical discipline • 6-8+ years of overall related engineering experience • Strong background developing firmware, embedded software, platform software, or other low-level systems that operate close to hardware. • Deep understanding of secure boot, root of trust, chain of trust, trusted execution environments, device identity, and hardware-backed security concepts. • Experience working with microcontrollers, SoCs, embedded processors, silicon platforms, or security-focused hardware architectures. • Knowledge of cryptography, authentication protocols, key management, secure provisioning, and secure communications. • Experience designing security solutions for automotive systems, connected devices, IoT products, wireless technologies, cellular platforms, or telecommunications equipment. • Familiarity with bootloaders, firmware architecture, embedded Linux, operating system startup processes, and platform initialization. • Ability to think like an attacker and identify how physical or logical access systems could be bypassed, cloned, spoofed, or manipulated. • Experience conducting technical research, developing prototypes, and translating new ideas into deployable, scalable solutions. Required skills • Proficiency in C and C++ development. Employment details – type, location, hours Dallas, TX (Onsite) | 6 month contract with ability to extend