Embedded Product Security Architect
$188,400 - $320,300 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
SanDisk’s Security Platform team is seeking an Embedded Product Security Architect to lead security architecture for the Flash business unit’s enterprise, client, retail, mobile, and automotive product lines. The role defines security architecture roadmaps covering hardware, firmware, and secure manufacturing infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Interface with ecosystem, product security assurance (PSA), and product teams to gather security requirements from customers, regulatory bodies, and compliance standards.
- Define the security architecture roadmap for Flash products across firmware, hardware, and secure manufacturing infrastructure.
- Drive threat modeling and reference embedded security architectures for product lines and support business-unit adoption.
- Architect interactions between system components and peripherals, while contributing to verification and validation strategies for security features.
- Lead internal security reviews of hardware and embedded software, and guide external evaluations and compliance activities.
- Collaborate with hardware design, firmware development, and product security assurance teams to incorporate security requirements into product design.
What you'll need
- Master's or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field, preferably with a specialization in embedded security (HW and/or SW).
- 10+ years of experience in embedded product security.
- Expert understanding of practical modern cryptography.
- Proficiency in security protocols, cryptography, authentication, attestation, authorization, secure boot, secure communication, digital signatures, certificates, and post-quantum cryptography.
- Solid understanding of creating and validating threat models.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring to architects and development teams.
- Experience in driving FIPS or Common Criteria certification.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of data storage controllers' architectures.
Skills: embedded security, cryptography, secure boot, threat modeling, FIPS
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
172
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Median days open
57 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$220k
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| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (172 roles · 41 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 172 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 57 d (−57 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded security, cryptography, secure boot, threat modeling, FIPS
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 31 open roles · median 44 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 22 open roles · median 110 d
- Qualcomm · 16 open roles · median 124 d
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- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 32 d
- Synopsys · 8 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 172 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 41 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 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.