SoC Security Architecture Engineer
Job ID 2024-12731 Date posted Mar. 12, 2025 Location Toronto, Canada Category Hardware Engineering Apply
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled SOC (System-on-Chip) Security Architect Lead to join our diverse team. If you are a self-motivated SoC engineer with expertise in SoC security solutions and requirements and looking to make a difference in an innovative and inclusive team, you have found the right place!
Responsibilities:
As the lead, you will be accountable for defining and developing SoC security architecture solutions for SoCs for multiple product market segments. This includes solutions for the SoC Root of Trust, secure boot, authentication and encryption. You will be architecting and designing access control solutions for the SoC, ensuring secure privilege management, isolation and enforcement of security policies across hardware and software components. You will perform threat modeling, defining software security requirements and refining security design guidelines to ensure robust system protection
Required Skills and Experience:
- Extensive security experience – 10+ years in applied cryptography, PKI management, secure manufacturing
- Security analysis & cryptographic expertise – Proficient in cryptographic algorithms, protocols, hardware/software threat analysis, risk assessment, and certification processes.
- Secure system architecture – Experience in ARM-based security product architecture, secure boot, update/recovery mechanisms, and countermeasures against attacks (SPA, DPA, fault injection, DRM, etc.).
- Platform security expertise – Senior-level knowledge of Android, Windows, or IoT-based security attacks, including application, framework, kernel, and hardware interactions.
- Leadership & strategic innovation – Strong experience in technology roadmap planning, technology innovations, and leading multi-national, cross-geo security teams.
In Return:
We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape outstanding!
- Partner and customer focus
- Teamwork and communication
- Creativity and innovation
- Team and personal development
- Impact and influence
- Deliver on your promises
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Salary Range:
$215,050-$290,950 per yearWe value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
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