Principal Silicon Security Architect
Core
Lead end-to-end security architecture for complex SoCs and silicon subsystems, defining frameworks, threat models, and secure hardware/software/firmware integration from requirements through post-silicon validation.
Role type
Principal Silicon Security Architect
Builds
Secure silicon subsystems, SoCs, and hardware-based security features for data-center, cloud, client, gaming, AI accelerator, and server-class products.
Domain
Semiconductor hardware security, SoC design, and embedded systems
Required skills
SoC security architecture, hardware roots of trust, secure boot, device identity and attestation, key management, confidential computing, side-channel attack mitigation, cryptographic services, secure firmware updates, supply-chain security, virtualization and multi-tenant isolation, secure debug and telemetry, export control compliance, security verification strategies (fuzzing, formal methods), third-party IP evaluation, PCIe architecture, AI-assisted architecture tools
Preferred skills
Experience with TCG, DICE, SPDM, Common Criteria, CNSA, FIPS 140-3 standards; experience with IOMMU/SMMU, secure DMA, and high-speed I/O subsystems
Technologies
PCIe, TCG, DICE, SPDM, Common Criteria, FIPS 140-3, CNSA, IOMMU, SMMU, TPM, AI-assisted tools
Responsibilities
Lead threat modeling and risk assessments across hardware, firmware, software, and physical attack surfaces; architect hardware roots of trust and secure provisioning mechanisms; define isolation and confidential-computing architectures; evaluate cryptographic algorithms and key hierarchies; assess and mitigate side-channel and fault-injection threats; author testable security requirements and specifications; drive cross-functional alignment on security direction; evaluate third-party security IP and vendor solutions.
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
