# Hardware Security Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Raleigh, North Carolina
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,800.00 to $185,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Security & Trust Organization (S&TO) at Cisco seeks a Hardware Security Engineer to focus on Hyperscaler Security. You will ensure Cisco's next-generation platforms and custom Hyperscaler hardware architectures adhere to rigorous security, trust, and resilience standards.

Responsibilities:

- Analyze sophisticated systems from high-level architecture down to component-level silicon

- Guide multi-functional engineering teams and external partners to deliver robust, secure hardware solutions

- Evaluate system-level hardware designs, schematics, board architectures, and component datasheets to identify threat vectors, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps

- Interpret, apply, and establish requirements aligned with emerging industry standards and compliance frameworks

- Provide technical guidance and architectural design guidance to product teams, hardware design engineers, firmware/BIOS teams, and third-party vendors

- Author hardware security requirements, review checklists, threat models, compliance white papers, and engineering specifications

- Participate in and manage multiple concurrent security evaluations, design reviews, and compliance workstreams

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field with 7+ years of relevant experience

- Prior background in hardware development and hardware security fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with crafting, implementing, or evaluating hardware-rooted attestation architectures and device identity mechanisms

- Experience with Hyperscaler and cloud platform architectures

- Experience implementing industry standard security IP or developing novel HW security solutions

- Experience with hardware threat modeling or hardware security analysis

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- hardware development
- hardware security

### Nice to have
- Hyperscaler and cloud platform architectures
- hardware-rooted attestation architectures
- device identity mechanisms
- industry standard security IP
- hardware threat modeling

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