Security Engineer SoC, Devices and Services Security - Seattle, Washington, United States
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves identifying security flaws and guiding secure hardware architecture for chips in Amazon devices. The team is responsible for chip-level security testing, secure chip architecture design, and security reviews for boot code and firmware.
What you'll do
- Guide the secure development of devices, from security design and threat modeling to code reviews, security testing, and fuzzing.
- Propose, research, and develop tools and techniques to improve device security posture at scale.
- Provide technical security expertise and consultation to device product teams.
- Identify security risks and collaborate with product engineers to create mitigations.
- Develop new security policies and procedures.
- Promote security awareness and develop training materials to improve security acumen.
What you'll need
- Experience finding security issues in chips and low-level software.
- Ability to find bugs in chips by reviewing design and code and performing tests.
- Experience in security testing, secure chip architecture design, and advisory.
- Experience with system reviews and security reviews for Secure boot code, bootloader code, and firmware.
Skills: security, SoC, devices, customer trust, security challenges, security professionals
This role has been open 13 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
$224k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Amazon | All employers we track in this specialty (184 roles · 46 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 184 |
| Median days open | 22 d | 58 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $224k |
Skills observed across this category: security, SoC, devices, customer trust, security challenges, security professionals
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 27 open roles · median 34 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 106 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 120 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 100 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 18 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 56 d
How we counted: 184 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 46 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.
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