System Embedded Software Engineer — Security

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The System Embedded Software Engineer Security is responsible for designing developing and validating secure embedded software firmware and driver solutions for HP commercial PC platforms. This role focuses on building security into the full firmware lifecycle including secure boot cryptographic services platform identity device onboarding firmware update protection and runtime threat mitigation.

The engineer works closely with hardware BIOS firmware software security and product teams to identify risks define secure implementation requirements and resolve vulnerabilities before product release. The role also requires strong technical documentation security-focused design reviews and awareness of emerging threats industry standards and best practices for embedded and firmware security.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design and development of secure embedded software firmware and driver components for commercial PC platforms.
• Defines security requirements for firmware features system interfaces update mechanisms device identity and platform onboarding flows.
• Performs threat modeling risk assessment and secure design reviews across embedded software and firmware architectures.
• Implements and validates security capabilities such as secure boot measured boot cryptographic protocols key management access control and firmware update protection.
• Investigates reproduces and resolves firmware security issues including vulnerabilities found through internal testing penetration testing fuzzing static analysis or external reporting.
• Reviews code design specifications and project deliverables for compliance with security standards secure coding practices and platform firmware requirements.
• Collaborates with hardware BIOS OS firmware and cybersecurity teams to ensure end-to-end protection across the device security boundary.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation including security architecture interface specifications protocol definitions test plans and mitigation plans.
• Drives continuous improvement in embedded security practices including security automation CI/CD integration vulnerability scanning and secure development lifecycle processes.
• Provides technical leadership and mentoring to engineers on secure firmware design debugging validation and vulnerability remediation.

Education & Experience Recommended

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical

  Cybersecurity or a related discipline.

• 10 years of experience in embedded software firmware driver development or product security with hands-on experience delivering secure firmware or embedded systems.

Preferred Certifications

Software Engineering

• Secure embedded systems development including bare metal RTOS bootloader and low-level firmware environments.
• Experience with embedded security architecture device identity secure provisioning secure onboarding and low-footprint cryptographic implementations.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices vulnerability classes memory safety risks and defensive firmware design techniques.
• Experience building fault-tolerant tamper-resistant and highly reliable embedded systems.
• CI/CD pipeline expertise for embedded systems including automated security testing static analysis signing and release validation.

Security Connectivity and Interoperability

• Embedded security development experience in cryptography authentication secure protocols certificate handling and key management.
• Experience securing wireless peripheral and interconnect protocol stacks across multiple connectivity technologies.
• Understanding of protocol-level security transport protection secure pairing access control and interoperability risk mitigation.
• Ability to interpret hardware and protocol specifications to identify security gaps define mitigations and guide secure design approaches.

Knowledge & Skills

• Firmware security development on Arm-based processors and embedded controller platforms
• Proficient in C; familiar with Python scripting build automation and security test tooling
• Source control and secure development workflow experience including GitHub code review branch control and release governance
• Secure boot bootloader architecture firmware signing verification rollback protection and update recovery mechanisms
• Embedded firmware debugging and security validation using JTAG SWD trace tools and vulnerability analysis methods
• Experience with UART I2C SPI USB PCIe wireless and other platform interfaces with awareness of associated security risks
• Use of logic analyzers protocol analyzers oscilloscopes and similar tools to debug security-relevant firmware and hardware interactions
• RTOS concepts privilege separation memory protection concurrency risks and secure multi-threaded firmware development
• Basic analog/digital electronics knowledge; able to read schematics and identify hardware security assumptions or constraints
• Capable of interpreting specifications data sheets standards and security requirements to develop robust firmware solutions

The pay range for this role is$147050to$230850USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location job-related knowledge skills and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.

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