Senior Firmware Engineer, Security Verified today
About the role
You will develop low-level firmware for the secure enclaves of custom ASICs in the TeraWave system, a multi-orbit satellite constellation delivering symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps globally. Working closely with silicon, software, security, and system engineering teams, you will build foundational firmware required to securely boot, provision, operate, update, monitor, and recover custom silicon throughout its lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop ROM code, bootloaders, and runtime firmware for secure enclaves within custom ASICs
- Design and implement firmware supporting secure boot, device attestation, and root-of-trust functionality
- Develop firmware infrastructure for OTA updates, recovery, and secure firmware lifecycle management
- Support manufacturing provisioning, including device identity, keys, credentials, and secure configuration
- Develop and support secure debug, telemetry, tamper monitoring, and device recovery mechanisms
- Work closely with ASIC, security, software, and system teams to define hardware/software interfaces and security requirements
- Support pre-silicon firmware development and validation using simulation, emulation, FPGA, or other development platforms
- Support silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, and production deployment of secure-enclave firmware
- Develop high-quality, maintainable embedded software with appropriate unit testing, code review, and documentation
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience developing embedded software or firmware for complex SoCs, ASICs, microcontrollers, or similar embedded systems
- Strong programming experience in C/C++ and low-level embedded software development
- Experience developing bootloaders, ROM code, board-support software, device drivers, or low-level firmware
- Strong understanding of embedded processor architectures, memory maps, interrupts, peripherals, and hardware/software interfaces
- Experience debugging embedded systems using tools such as JTAG, trace, logic analyzers, or equivalent debugging environments
- Experience with embedded security concepts such as secure boot, root of trust, cryptographic key management, device identity, or secure firmware updates
- Ability to work closely with ASIC and hardware teams during pre-silicon development and silicon bring-up
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing firmware specifically for secure enclaves, hardware roots of trust, or security subsystems
- Experience with manufacturing provisioning, device attestation, anti-rollback, secure debug, and tamper detection
- Experience with cryptographic hardware accelerators, key storage, OTP/eFuse, TRNG, or secure memory
- Experience with custom ASIC or SoC pre-silicon verification and post-silicon bring-up
- Experience developing firmware for high-reliability, aerospace, satellite, communications, networking, or other complex systems
- Familiarity with ARM or RISC-V processor architectures and associated embedded development environments
Compensation and details
Base pay range for CA and WA applicants: $230,398.00 to $322,556.85. Other site ranges may differ.
Relocation provided. Interviews will include a technical assessment.
Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. A standard background check is required for all positions.
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with company match up to 5%, education support program, and stock options for regular employees. Up to four weeks paid time off per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays. Bonus eligibility dependent on role and performance.