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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

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1X

1X.com