Yubico
Senior Hardware Engineer
Santa Clara, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$175k-$210kDetected 2 days ago
Agentic AIJiraConfluencePCB DesignAltiumCadenceFPGAElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- In this role, you will be part of the team that brings new ideas from prototypes to the mass-producible hardware.
Responsibilities
- Electronic Design from concept to implementation and hand-over to manufacturing at scale
- Testing prototypes, HW/FW troubleshooting, solving design and manufacturing issues
- Collaborating with FW/SW/Test/Mfg teams to deliver compatible, reliable products
- Overseeing the manufacturing process of electrical components/assemblies to ensure they meet the design specifications
- We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong.
- In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico which all employees are welcome to join.
- You will also be responsible for analyzing hardware design for manufacturability, security, and reliability.
- designed for your overall well-being:
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience designing embedded hardware systems, using EDA/PCB design software (Altium or Allegro/Cadence ) Schematic Capture, Layout / Routing and DFM/DFA
- Experience with Bus communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, USB, PCIe, RS232/RS485, PCIe, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, CAN)
- Experience with Microcontrollers, preferably STM, TI, Freescale, NXP, and relevant software stacks
- Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world (you can read more about our work here ).
Nice to have
- Designing software architectures for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Wireless technologies (NFC, Bluetooth, BLE, BLE Mesh, ZigBee )
- Hardware (PCB, JTAG, UART, SPI, ROM, microcode, custom ASIC/FPGA) x86 and/or ARM chipset and firmware security (TPM, UEFI, TrustZone, secure boot)
- Experience with mechanical fixtures and automation
- PLM tools experience ( Arena or Agile )
- Collaboration Tools experience (JIRA/Confluence)
- We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family.
- We love welcoming new family members to our YubiTeam!
Compensation
- This role has the annual salary range as defined below for a salary pay range for a candidate located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Benefits
- We've got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision.
- Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year.
- We offer $1,200.00 in wellness earnings (prorated based on start date) that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes.
- This is a taxable benefit if you choose to participate.
- Learning and development.
- We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program.
- We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year.
- All parents receive 8 weeks of paid leave.
- Birthing parents receive an additional 8 weeks of paid leave (16 weeks total).
Company info
- Yubico is a global leader in identity security and creator of the YubiKey, the original hardware-backed passkey.
- Publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm with headquarters in Sweden, the US, and Singapore, we protect everyone from everyday consumers to global enterprises with modern, phishing-resistant authentication.
- Why Join Our Mission?
- At Yubico, we are guided by a shared belief that your work matters.
- We operate under a cultural philosophy of Speed with Integrity, pushing the boundaries of technology to secure the AI frontier-protecting both human and agentic AI interactions-and leading the transition to post-quantum cryptography.
- We are open, responsive, and collaborative, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes together.
- Aligned with our commitment to open standards, we foster a thriving builder ecosystem through the Yubico Developer Program, offering free open-source repositories, libraries, and SDKs to help developers rapidly integrate strong hardware authentication into any application.
- Through close collaborations with technical partners like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as newer frontiers like OpenAI, we continue to shape a safer digital world while donating security keys to protect vulnerable communities, journalists, and humanitarian groups worldwide through our Secure it Forward program.
- We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer who is innovative and has a passion for hardware and firmware design of cutting edge security devices.
This listing is sourced directly from Yubico's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.