What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Device Security position at Humane USA?
Who We Are
Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Device Security, you will play a key role in helping Humane lead the industry in advancing the security of AI devices, and empowering users with control of their privacy and personal data in the quickly evolving AI-driven world. Privacy and security are table stakes at Humane, and absolutely integral to our success as a dynamic company with a deep commitment to product.
You will own projects through their entire life cycle, building secure systems for our innovative devices by threat modeling, designing secure architectures, and implementing them. This role focuses on designing and implementing solutions across the entire software stack of our embedded systems, including the way they interface with the outside world, in a way that provides joyful user experiences without compromising privacy & security. The technology that you will create will maintain and strengthen the trust that Humane promises to our users.
What You Might Do
- Lead the design and implementation of embedded device security architecture from the ground up. This includes using the best industry standard cryptography practices for things like secure key management systems, hardware secure boot, PKI, efficient encryption of data, and more.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the CoreOS, Firmware, Design, and Cloud Services teams to create robust security features.
- Develop custom TrustZone or native kernel applications to enhance hardware-backed identity solutions and data protection.
- Work on high-profile projects, such as secure backup and restore systems, that require secure and efficient data handling.
- Interface with biometric sensors to create secure channels for data flow inside and outside device boundaries.
- Assist in vulnerability management, and apply secure SDLC practices across the company.
Essential Qualifications
Preferred Skills
Salary : $216,000- $288,000
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
Why Humane?
At Humane, diversity is important to us.
Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws ("protected characteristics" or "protected categories"). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.
Salary : $216,000 - $288,000
