Groq
Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Confidential Computing
San Francisco, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- You'll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens.
- Architect attestation capabilities that establish and verify trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and protected workload execution.
- Design and build security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and hardware-backed isolation.
- Partner deeply with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to shape platform integrity, secure and measured boot, device identity, and other hardware-rooted security capabilities.
- Design security capabilities that enable protected workload execution while maintaining trust throughout the workload lifecycle.
- Design secure approaches for cryptographic key material, credentials, identity, certificates, and provisioning within trusted computing environments.
- Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, host software, and workload execution, identifying systemic risks and driving durable mitigations.
- Develop systems software, security tooling, and automation that make hardware-backed security capabilities reliable and operable at scale.
- Lead security-sensitive designs across organizational boundaries, translating complex hardware and systems risks into practical engineering decisions.
- Partner across engineering and security to build capabilities that strengthen customer trust, platform reliability, and support compliance requirements.
- Strong systems engineering skills, with experience developing low-level systems software, security tooling, firmware, or production automation in languages such as C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, or similar languages.
Requirements
- The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas.
- Strong understanding of firmware and low-level systems security, including boot chains, platform integrity, and security boundaries between hardware and software.
- Strong understanding of cryptographic systems, key management, certificate lifecycle, secure credential management, and secure provisioning in trusted computing environments.
- Experience with bare-metal lifecycle security or securing large-scale compute environments is valuable.
Compensation
- $341k-$402k
Benefits
- Compensation Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits. #LI-MS1
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