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Google · 4 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Hardware Security

In-office locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. The Senior Software Engineer, Hardware Security will be responsible for ensuring security responses and architectural improvements for hardware environments, while collaborating with various teams to mitigate vulnerabilities and design resilient applications.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Take responsibility for the success of security responses, architectural reviews, and improvements for confidential CPU, GPU, and TPU environments

Lead uArch vulnerability responses as part of a rotation and with the support of a cross-functional team. Drive key responses to microarchitectural vulnerabilities by assessing their impact at Google’s scale and coordinating remediation with internal teams and external vendors

Research and develop long-term, systematic mitigations—such as robust isolation primitives—to ensure that hardware vulnerabilities never pose a significant risk to the world again

Partner with internal product teams to design applications that are architecturally resilient to modern hardware threats from day one

Collaborate deeply with hardware vendors and research institutions to share knowledge, triage impacts, and inform the design of a secure future

Qualification

Software developmentData privacy/securitySoftware testing/maintenanceSoftware design/architectureData structures/algorithmsAccessible technologiesBachelor’s degreeMaster's degree/PhDTechnical leadership

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages

3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management)

3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products

1 year of experience with software design and architecture

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field

5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms

1 year of experience in a technical leadership role

Experience developing accessible technologies

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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