Sr. Security Architect

Job Overview

We are seeking a Sr. Security Architect to drive security architecture for Client and Data Center SoCs, with a primary focus on using AI‑driven tools to build specifications, code, test, and analyze security vulnerabilities  role defines how modern AI techniques are applied to security systems across firmware and low‑level system hardware/software—augmenting and surpassing traditional manual development and review.

• Serve as the technical lead for SOC security architecture across Client and Data Center SOC/platform.
• Define secure boot flows, including Boot ROMs and secure/measured boot, and establish Hardware–firmware–OS chains of trust.
• Lead AI accelerator security for Client NPUs.
• Lead security discovery using AI‑based analysis tools, explicitly responsible for identifying firmware and low‑level vulnerabilities at scale.
• Discover insecure coding patterns and flawed design assumptions.
• Uncover cross‑layer attack paths spanning silicon, firmware, and system software.
• Apply AI‑assisted code reasoning and large‑scale analysis to rapidly analyze large firmware and platform codebases.
• Explore edge cases, rare failure modes, and adversarial scenarios.
• Assess security impact of design choices and implementation tradeoffs.
• Drive firmware‑focused threat modeling, enhanced by AI tools to broaden coverage, identify emergent risks, and reduce reliance on manual enumeration.
• Define and own firmware security architecture specifications, informed directly by insights from AI‑driven security discovery.
• Partner deeply with SoC architects, silicon designers, firmware engineers, and OS/virtualization teams to translate discovered risks into concrete mitigations and architectural guidance.
• Shape platform and product security roadmaps by identifying systemic firmware and SoC risks revealed through AI‑scale analysis across multiple products and generations.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects, setting best practices for AI‑enabled security discovery, analysis, and review.

Client and Data Center SoCs ship with resilient firmware security architectures grounded in real analysis. AI‑driven security capabilities definition becomes a core pillar of firmware and SoC security practice, not a supplemental tool across multiple domains. Firmware and platform security issues are systematically discovered earlier, with broader and deeper coverage than traditional review methods. Engineering teams rely on this role as the authoritative voice on firmware security and AI‑enabled security discovery strategies.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in Client and/or Data Center platform or firmware security architecture.
• Hands‑on experience of 2+ years using AI‑based tools specifically for code generation and security discovery, such as AI‑assisted static and semantic code generation and analysis.
• 5+ years of system‑level programming skills (e.g., C/C++, Rust) and security automation, validation (e.g., Python).

• Experience defining SoC, IP, or platform architecture specifications consumed across multiple teams or products.
• Proven track record of discovering or preventing critical firmware or platform‑level security issues before production.
• Experience scaling AI‑driven security discovery across large, shared firmware or platform codebases.
• Familiarity with Client and Data Center security technologies, including confidential computing and virtualization‑based security.
• Recognized influence as a technical leader within a large organization or industry ecosystem.

This role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law) extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internals, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,…