Senior Manager, Secure Engineering Enablement - Austin, Texas, United States
$198,100 - $268,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role provides strategic security leadership and trusted partnership across Enterprise Security domains to protect Arm's Intellectual Property and Silicon engineering environments.
What you'll do
- Develop and deliver the strategic roadmap for Secure Engineering Enablement across Arm's IP and Silicon businesses, aligning security priorities with engineering roadmaps, business objectives, and enterprise risk. - Provide expert guidance on IP protection, silicon engineering environments, EDA/tooling ecosystems, secure collaboration access models, and engineering data protection. - Drive security-by-design adoption across engineering infrastructure, embedding controls, guardrails, and risk-informed decision making. - Advise on Security Architecture designs across IP and Silicon IT environments, conducting practical threat modelling and technical counsel to identify risks early. - Translate emerging threats, regulatory expectations, customer requirements, and industry developments into measurable improvements and guidance. - Create governance, metrics, and reporting to demonstrate delivery performance, security effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
What you'll need
- Significant experience working in Enterprise Security teams within the semiconductor industry, with strong understanding of IP development, silicon engineering lifecycles, and high-value technology protection. - Strong enterprise security architecture background developing practical principles, patterns, roadmaps, and assurance approaches. - Deep understanding of enterprise security domains including architecture, GRC, IAM, data protection, secure development, cloud/infrastructure security, third-party risk, and security operations. - Awareness of semiconductor supply chain security considerations, including third-party collaboration, supplier assurance, data sharing, access control, and IP protection. - Proven ability to lead strategic projects, manage customer relationships across engineering, product, legal, and commercial teams, and develop people.
Nice to have
- BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, computer science, electronic engineering, semiconductor engineering, or a related subject. - Certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, TOGAF, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, or relevant cloud/security architecture credentials. - Experience with semiconductor supply chain security, foundries, OSATs, IP partners, strategic customers, or ecosystem suppliers. - Experience with EDA environments, secure engineering workspaces, regulated customer assurance, or secure third-party collaboration models. - Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53/171, SOC 2, or equivalent security control frameworks.
Skills: IP protection, silicon engineering environments, EDA/tooling ecosystem, secure supply chain, enterprise security architecture
This role has been open 120 days — well above the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
183
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Median days open
58 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 | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (183 roles · 43 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 183 |
| Median days open | 106 d | 58 d (+48 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: IP protection, silicon engineering environments, EDA/tooling ecosystem, secure supply chain, enterprise security architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 30 open roles · median 38 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 91 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 126 d
- Arm Holdings (this employer) · 13 open roles · median 106 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 20 d
- Synopsys · 10 open roles · median 7 d
How we counted: 183 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 43 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.