# Staff Platform Security Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,200-$283,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Staff Platform Security Engineer to help deliver the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.

The successful candidate will design and implement embedded security solutions for next-generation automotive platforms, translate high-level security and system requirements into scalable, secure embedded system designs, and collaborate with systems engineering to refine requirements and ensure feasibility in embedded environments.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and implementing embedded security solutions for next-generation automotive platforms

- Translating high-level security and system requirements into scalable, secure embedded system designs

- Collaborating with systems engineering to refine requirements and ensure feasibility in embedded environments

- Partnering with cybersecurity teams to define and implement security architectures and platform-level security components

- Working closely with test teams to support validation activities, including test case development and issue resolution

- Identifying gaps in existing architecture and design, then building and integrating missing components end-to-end

- Developing, maintaining, and optimizing embedded software using Embedded C as the primary language

- Implementing and supporting unit testing and participating in broader system and integration testing efforts

- Utilizing Git for version control and Jira for task/issue tracking to manage day-to-day development work

- Contributing to secure services, key provisioning workflows, and cryptographic operations within the platform

- Troubleshooting complex issues in a Linux-based embedded environment, including performance and security-related defects

- Operating as a self-directed engineer, driving delivery of key platform milestones and contributing production-level code on aggressive timelines

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 10+ years of embedded systems development experience

- Strong hands-on experience with Embedded C as primary development language

- Proven track record of building security into shipped embedded products

- Strong experience working in Linux-based embedded environments

- Experience designing and implementing embedded security solutions (platform-level security, secure services, key provisioning, etc.)

- Comfortable working in early-stage, prototype, and pre–go-to-market environments

- Ability to work independently, operate in ambiguity, and drive solutions end-to-end

- Experience collaborating with systems engineering, cybersecurity, and test/validation teams

- Proficiency with Git for source control

- Experience using Jira or similar tools for work tracking and issue management

- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and unit testing skills in embedded contexts

Benefits include:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- Embedded C
- Linux
- Git
- Jira
- embedded systems development
- security architectures
- platform-level security
- secure services
- key provisioning

### Nice to have
- Rust
- TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
- secure boot implementations
- key provisioning and cryptographic services
- automotive platforms
- consumer devices (mobile, IoT, etc.)
- semiconductor companies (e.g., Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Broadcom)

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