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