Security Software Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States

Originally posted 17 June 2026 by the employer.

Enhance application security infrastructure within the Vivado FPGA toolchain to protect customer IP and sensitive software.

About the role

This role supports and enhances the security infrastructure within AMD's Vivado FPGA toolchain. The position is responsible for protecting sensitive software and customer IP at the application layer against reverse engineering, tampering, and data exposure.

What you'll do

- Implement protections against reverse engineering, debugging, and tampering. - Identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities to improve robustness against misuse or exploitation. - Ensure secure handling of sensitive customer design data, implementing and maintaining encryption and data integrity workflows. - Maintain, refactor, and extend existing security components within an in-house security framework for performance and reliability. - Develop and optimize security features in C++ across Linux and/or Windows environments applying multithreading and memory management practices.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent. - Strong C++ development experience, including multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization. - Understanding of application security concepts, vulnerability mitigation, attack surfaces, and secure design. - Familiarity with reverse engineering techniques and common attack methods. - Experience applying cryptography in software systems (e.g., using libraries such as OpenSSL). - Experience working in large, complex codebases or mature products across Linux or Windows environments.

Nice to have

- Exposure to software protection, DRM, or licensing systems.

Skills: application security, C++, Vivado toolchain, reverse engineering, tampering