System Embedded Software Engineer — Security

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in embedded software, firmware, driver development, or product security, with hands-on experience delivering secure firmware or embedded systems.

• Secure embedded systems development, including bare metal, RTOS, bootloader, and low-level firmware environments.
• Experience with embedded security architecture, device identity, secure provisioning, secure onboarding, and low-footprint cryptographic implementations.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices, vulnerability classes, memory safety risks, and defensive firmware design techniques.
• Experience building fault-tolerant, tamper-resistant, and highly reliable embedded systems.
• CI/CD pipeline expertise for embedded systems, including automated security testing, static analysis, signing, and release validation.

• Embedded security development experience in cryptography, authentication, secure protocols, certificate handling, and key management.
• Experience securing wireless, peripheral, and interconnect protocol stacks across multiple connectivity technologies.
• Understanding of protocol-level security, transport protection, secure pairing, access control, and interoperability risk mitigation.
• Ability to interpret hardware and protocol specifications to identify security gaps, define mitigations, and guide secure design approaches.

• Firmware security development on Arm-based processors and embedded controller platforms
• Proficient in C; familiar with Python, scripting, build automation, and security test tooling
• Source control and secure development workflow experience, including GitHub, code review, branch control, and release governance
• Secure boot, bootloader architecture, firmware signing, verification, rollback protection, and update recovery mechanisms
• Embedded firmware debugging and security validation using JTAG, SWD, trace tools, and vulnerability analysis methods
• Experience with UART, I2C, SPI, USB, PCIe, wireless, and other platform interfaces with awareness of associated security risks
• Use of logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, and similar tools to debug security-relevant firmware and hardware interactions
• RTOS concepts, privilege separation, memory protection, concurrency risks, and secure multi-threaded firmware development
• Basic analog/digital electronics knowledge; able to read schematics and identify hardware security assumptions or constraints
• Capable of interpreting specifications, data sheets, standards, and security requirements to develop robust firmware solutions

The pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only).

Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview )

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting.

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