Identity Security - PKI Engineer - Arizona, Phoenix, United States
$105,300 - $148,660 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves assisting senior engineers with the design, architecture, and building of secure classified network products to support US Government operations within Intel's Information Security organization.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade PKI solutions.
- Lead certificate lifecycle management efforts using various tools.
- Automate PKI-related tasks and processes.
- Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to integrate PKI solutions with various platforms and applications.
- Develop and enforce policies, standards, and best practices for certificate issuance, renewal, and revocation.
- Monitor PKI infrastructure health, availability, and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
- Troubleshoot PKI-related issues including certificate chain validation, CRL/OCSP configurations, and encryption/signing issues.
- Provide documentation, technical guidance, and training to internal teams.
What you'll need
- US Citizenship.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Cyber Security Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar discipline and 3+ years of relevant experience, OR a Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Cyber Security Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar discipline and 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Design, deployment and lifecycle management of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
- Knowledge of Key length standards and hashing algorithms.
- Experience with PKI integration with Active directory, Identity and PAM solutions.
- Understanding of X.509 certificates, OCSP and Certificate management protocol.
Nice to have
- Active US Government Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI access.
- Experience with DoD security implementation (e.g. STIG) and security tools for managing the environment.
- Experience with business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Experience with scripting in Windows and UNIX environment.
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2022.
- Experience with Web Tech: HTML, JavaScript, JSP, XML, XSL, and DTD.
Skills: PKI solutions, certificate lifecycle management, X.509 certificates, security clearance
This role has been open 47 days — well below the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
184
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (184 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 184 |
| Median days open | 104 d | 58 d (+46 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: PKI solutions, certificate lifecycle management, X.509 certificates, security clearance
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 27 open roles · median 33 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 105 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 119 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 99 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 17 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 41 d
How we counted: 184 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.