Altera
Senior Security Analyst: Assurance and Global Compliance
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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$18,048 more — $196,248 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $196,248 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Information Security Analysts" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- We are looking for a Senior Security Analyst to help define and scale security assurance and global compliance practices across our engineering and product organizations.
- In this role, you will turn security and regulatory expectations into practical frameworks, tools, reviews, and reporting that teams can adopt and use effectively.
Responsibilities
- Create adoption frameworks and evaluate tools that make secure engineering, evidence collection, and reporting practical and repeatable.
- Track findings and remediation plans, validate corrective actions, and report status to technical and leadership audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Experience defining SDL and secure-engineering processes and conducting security reviews, compliance assessments, audits, or certification-readiness activities.
- Ability to translate CRA, standards, regulations, and customer requirements into clear engineering controls, evidence plans, reports, and remediation actions.
- Experience assessing complex software, firmware, embedded, semiconductor, cloud, or platform environments
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, product security, security assurance, cybersecurity governance, compliance, or a related field, including at least 3 years in product security, security architecture, assurance leadership, technical leadership, or cross-functional program ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience working with CRA, IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155/UN R156, TISAX, ISO 27001, NIST, notified bodies, or customer certification programs.
- Experience in semiconductor, FPGA, silicon, embedded systems, automotive, firmware, hardware/software, or other security-critical product environments.
- Familiarity with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, vulnerability disclosure, third-party/open-source risk, and evidence automation.
- Experience evaluating GRC, compliance-automation, security-testing, or evidence-management tools
- relevant security certifications are a plus.
Compensation
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
- $178,200 - $258,000 USD
Company info
- Job Details: Job Description: About the Role We are looking for a Senior Security Analyst to help define and scale security assurance and global compliance practices across our engineering and product organizations.
- Support customers whose products integrate Altera FPGAs by helping interpret security requirements, identify evidence needs, and coordinate product-certification readiness.
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