# Hardware Security Architect

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,200.00 - $201,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Security & Trust Organization (S&TO) at Cisco seeks a Hardware Security Architect to focus on Hyperscaler Security. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Cisco's next-generation platforms and custom Hyperscaler hardware architectures adhere to meticulous security, trust, and resilience standards.

Key Responsibilities:

- Providing clear, actionable security requirements and architectural design guidance to product teams, hardware design engineers, firmware/BIOS teams, and third-party vendors.

- Coordinate and represent Cisco's technical interests in key external open-source and standards groups.

- 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.

- Author and provide overall direction for hardware security requirements, review checklists, threat models, compliance white papers, and engineering specifications.

- Participate in and lead multiple concurrent security evaluations, design reviews, and compliance workstreams across diverse hardware programs.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field with 9+ years (BS), 6+ years (MS), or 3+ years (PhD) of proven experience.

- Prior experience leading security initiatives and mentoring engineers as a technical leader.

- Prior background in hardware development.

- Prior background in hardware root-of-trust, secure boot, hardware or firmware resiliency, tamper resistance, cryptographic imprinting, or hardware cryptographic acceleration.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with designing, 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.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary Range: $139,200.00 - $201,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- hardware security
- security architecture
- compliance frameworks
- hardware development
- cryptography

### Nice to have
- Hyperscaler architectures
- cloud platform architectures
- hardware-rooted attestation
- device identity mechanisms
- hardware threat modeling

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