Product Security Assurance Architect

• Job Type (exemption status):
  Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Business Function:
  Software Development (Sys)

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Sandisk’s Product Security Engineering & Assurance (PSEA) organization is seeking a highly experienced Product Security Assurance Architect to strengthen security assurance across San Disk’s firmware-driven products and storage platforms.

This role is responsible for advancing product security through independent technical security assurance, exploitability analysis, adversarial security assessment, and product security lifecycle effectiveness across the portfolio.

Working in close partnership with Platform Security, product engineering, firmware, ASIC, validation, and PSIRT teams, this position focuses on evaluating the effectiveness, completeness, and defensibility of implemented security controls and product security posture, helping ensure products are resilient against realistic threats and aligned with customer, business, and regulatory expectations.

This role is distinct from embedded product security architecture and implementation functions. Product and Platform Security teams remain responsible for defining and implementing security architectures within products. This role focuses on independent technical assurance, attacker-informed analysis, security lifecycle maturity, and scalable product security risk reduction across the portfolio.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Product Security Assurance & Technical Assessment

• Conduct independent technical security assessments of firmware-driven products,and embedded platforms to identify security gaps, attack paths, implementation weaknesses, and residual risk.
• Assess the effectiveness and completeness of implemented security controls, security mechanisms, and architecture decisions from an assurance and exploitability perspective.
• Evaluate trust boundaries, privileged operations, manufacturing pathways, debug capabilities, firmware update mechanisms, and product lifecycle transitions for potential security weaknesses.

Threat Modeling & Exploitability Analysis

• Evaluate the quality, completeness, and realism of product threat models and challenge assumptions through attacker-informed analysis.
• Conduct exploitability and attack surface analysis across firmware and embedded systems, including:
  • secure boot and roots of trust,
  • authentication and authorization controls,
  • secure firmware update paths,
  • manufacturing and RMA workflows,
  • debug interfaces (UART/JTAG),
  • provisioning and lifecycle security,
  • cryptographic implementations and key management approaches.
• Partner with engineering teams…