Security Firmware Architect

Location: Markham

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THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a Security Firmware Architect to join the Product Security Office (PSO) in securing the platforms that power the cloud, the data center, AI, and personal computing.

Your role will be to define and drive security firmware architecture for AMD's confidential computing technologies, such as SEV-SNP, across AMD's product portfolio. You will work at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and software, designing security features that protect customer workloads, AI models, and data.

THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate is passionate about product security, spanning firmware, hardware, and software, with demonstrated experience in platform and/or device security architecture and confidential computing. You possess the leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution, learn new concepts quickly, and communicate effectively across AMD teams, customers, and industry partners in a cross-site, matrixed environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Define and drive security firmware architecture across AMD's product portfolio

Advance AMD's confidential computing and virtualization security technologies, including SEV-SNP, VM and tenant isolation, and trusted I/O, and help extend these capabilities across AMD's product portfolio

Contribute to security architecture for emerging AI use cases, including agentic AI, with a focus on hardware-rooted trust, attestation, isolation, and protection of sensitive data processed by AI workloads and agents running on AMD platforms

Lead end-to-end threat modeling, security analysis, and vulnerability assessment across hardware, firmware, and software

Write architecture specifications for platform and firmware security features

Engage with customers and ecosystem partners to capture security requirements, and develop documentation and training materials

Maintain substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art security research and attacks, and contribute to industry standards, publications, and conferences

Innovate with AI-assisted engineering tooling and workflows to accelerate security analysis, review, and documentation, and help establish how the team uses it

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Multiple years' experience in platform, firmware, or product security architecture, with demonstrated ownership of security architecture at system scope

Experience with CPU confidential computing technologies and trusted execution environments (e.g., AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, ARM CCA), including memory encryption, VM isolation, remote attestation, and sealing

Deep understanding of computer architecture and SoC composition, including CPU, GPU, and NPU subsystems, memory hierarchy and caches, DMA, and I/O, with knowledge of x86 and/or ARM security and virtualization extensions

Expertise in operating systems and virtualization, including Linux kernel and driver development, hypervisors, and containers

Experience with hardware security modules, secure boot processes, and root of trust implementations

Experience with secure firmware update mechanisms and attestation protocols

Familiarity with interconnect standards (PCIe, CXL) and their security features, including trusted device assignment (TDISP, IDE)
Knowledge and application of cryptographic…