Staff Security Engineer, Silicon Software

Role Overview

As a Staff Security Engineer in Google's Silicon team, you will work in partnership with our development and product teams to ensure the security of the Tensor SoC and Pixel smartphones.

Responsibilities

• Conduct offensive security assessments, vulnerability research, and penetration testing across Tensor SoC firmware and software stacks.
• Perform architecture and implementation-level threat modeling, design reviews, and security audits.
• Develop automated testing tools, fuzzers, and exploits to identify and validate hardware and software vulnerabilities.
• Partner cross-functionally with hardware, software, and product teams to design mitigation strategies and drive security best practices.
• Apply system-level knowledge of software and hardware security to improve overall system security and attack resistance, proposing hardware/software mitigation strategies for vulnerabilities.

Requirements & Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with offensive security engineering (e.g., penetration testing, threat modeling, vulnerability testing, or code-level security auditing).
• 8 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., C, C++, Python, or Rust).
• 3 years of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with embedded software, device drivers, kernels, or firmware.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in reverse engineering, static analysis or dynamic analysis (Fuzzing) and exploit development.
• Experience with security reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, finding and fixing security issues, etc.
• Experience with commercial electronic devices, preferably smartphones.
• Knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication, security protocols, and applied cryptography.

Application Instructions

Apply directly on Google Careers at Staff Security Engineer, Silicon Software↗.

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Note: In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.