Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 12 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect defines and leads the security architecture for Graphcore’s inference service platform across infrastructure, networking, service operations, and compliance readiness.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end security architecture for the inference service platform, covering infrastructure, networking, APIs, operational controls, monitoring, and customer assurance. - Define platform security requirements across hardware, firmware, secure boot, attestation, software integrity, and lifecycle management. - Establish security principles, threat models, trust boundaries, tenant isolation requirements, and architectural standards for the service. - Lead the design of network and service isolation controls, segmentation strategies, secure communications, and administrative access protections. - Architect controls for authentication, authorisation, secrets management, encryption, key management, and privileged access management. - Support customer security reviews, audits, penetration testing activities, and technical assurance discussions.
What you'll need
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience defining and owning security architecture for customer-facing platforms, infrastructure services, or large-scale production environments. - Deep understanding of threat modelling, zero-trust principles, tenant isolation, privileged access management, cryptographic controls, and secure operations. - Strong knowledge of platform security technologies including trusted execution mechanisms, secure boot, attestation, firmware integrity, and supply-chain security concepts. - Expertise in network security architecture, segmentation, management-plane protection, secure communications, monitoring, and access control. - Experience with key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and encryption technologies.
Skills: security architecture, platform security, firmware integrity, secure boot, threat modeling
This role has been open 129 days — well above the 64-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
178
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$220k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (178 roles · 42 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 178 |
| Median days open | 73 d | 64 d (+9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: security architecture, platform security, firmware integrity, secure boot, threat modeling
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 30 open roles · median 39 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 92 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 127 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 107 d
- STMicroelectronics · 9 open roles · median 25 d
- Synopsys · 8 open roles · median 9 d
How we counted: 178 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 42 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.