Wayve
Principal Embedded Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, California USA · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- The security of our software is paramount to the safety of our vehicles.
- The onboard software for our various fleets of vehicles is critical to data gathering, model training, and demonstration of our self-driving technology.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software to implement security controls for the system
- Contribute to technical requirements, architecture, and interface design documents
- Partner with the wider Wayve Security team to identify and address security issues related to our vehicle fleet
- Partner with developers from throughout the organization to design and promote secure software architectures
- Build, deploy, and maintain security tools, libraries, controls, and instrumentation in Wayve's codebases
- Perform code and design reviews to identify and help remediate security flaws
- Experience incorporating hardware-based security techniques (Hardware Security modules, TrustZone, Secure Boot, etc) into a robust hardware/software system design
- Extensive experience creating, presenting, and refining clear, compelling technical specifications from top-level system architecture documents down to low-level implementation guides and test plans
- Exceptional ability to communicate and collaborate with developers, non-engineering stakeholders, and leadership
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining professional software
Requirements
- Significant experience with at least Python, C++, C, or Go.
- Experience with QNX or similar realtime operating systems
- Experience with Azure, GCP, containers, secrets management systems, cryptography, popular threat modeling systems, and other contemporary security topics
- Bachelor's degree or above in CS, Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar
Compensation
- This role is a full-time role based in Sunnyvale, CA (hybrid) and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $295,500 to $375,100, plus a competitive equity package.
Company info
- In order to set you up for success as an Embedded Security Engineer at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience.
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