Product Security Engineer - Cryptography & PKI
1X.com
175k - 188k USD/year
Office
Palo Alto, California, United States
Full Time
Design & manage end-to-end cryptographic services (PKI, key lifecycle)
Stand up HSM infrastructure as the root-of-trust for firmware signing and IoT endpoint authentication
Lead HSM vendor evaluation, procurement, installation, configuration and integration
Architect key management at scale—from hundreds of devices today to 1 million+ over time
Design remote device attestation mechanisms (fTPM/OP-TEE or equivalent) tied back to the HSM root-of-trust
Build and automate secure firmware/bootloader signing pipelines
Define trust infrastructure and author key-generation, provisioning, rotation and destruction processes
Secure build/artifact pipelines, code-signing workflows
Develop factory provisioning architecture for mass key/certificate distribution
Support the development of secure communication protocols
Collaborate as an individual contributor with ProdSec, Cloud Infra, device and SecOps teams
Requirements
- Experience deploying and operating HSM appliances
- Experience architecting PKI for large-scale IoT deployments
- Strong knowledge of device attestation flows (fTPM/OP-TEE or similar)
- Linux proficiency and scripting (Python, Bash) for CA, HSM and provisioning automation
- Solid secure firmware signing and code-integrity practices
- Ability to create, enforce, and document robust crypto-process playbooks, including the development and maintenance of Certificate Policies (CP) and Certification Practice Statements (CPS) to support enterprise PKI governance.
Nice To Have:
- Vendor-specific HSM credentials or labs (Thales, Utimaco, AWS CloudHSM)
- NVIDIA Orin or similar SoC platform experience
- Background in post-quantum crypto evaluation and migration planning
- Familiarity with large-scale factory provisioning tools (KMIP gateways, ACME/SCEP)
- ProdSec/supply-chain security expertise (SBOMs, CI/CD hardening)
- Experience in C/C++/Rust/GoLang (in addition to Python / Bash)
Golang Preferred
Additional Security Certifications
Product Security Engineer - Cryptography & PKI
Office
Palo Alto, California, United States
Full Time
175k - 188k USD/year
September 18, 2025