Senior Security Analyst: Assurance and Global Compliance - San Jose, California, United States
$178,200 - $258,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on scaling security assurance and global compliance practices across engineering and product organizations.
What you'll do
- Define Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements, lifecycle checkpoints, control objectives, and evidence expectations.
- Create adoption frameworks and evaluate tools for secure engineering, evidence collection, and reporting.
- Conduct security reviews, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and compliance assessments, readiness reviews, and security hackathons.
- Coordinate with notified bodies and internal stakeholders on CRA evidence, reporting, and certification-readiness activities.
- Support customers integrating Altera FPGAs by interpreting security requirements and coordinating product-certification readiness.
- Track findings and remediation plans, validate corrective actions, and report status to technical and leadership audiences.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, product security, security assurance, cybersecurity governance, compliance, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in product security, security architecture, assurance leadership, technical leadership, or cross-functional program ownership.
- Experience defining SDL and secure-engineering processes and conducting security reviews, compliance assessments, audits, or certification-readiness activities.
- Ability to translate CRA, standards, regulations, and customer requirements into clear engineering controls, evidence plans, reports, and remediation actions.
- Experience assessing complex software, firmware, embedded, semiconductor, cloud, or platform environments.
Nice to have
- Experience working with CRA, IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155/UN R156, TISAX, ISO 27001, NIST, notified bodies, or customer certification programs.
- Experience in semiconductor, FPGA, silicon, embedded systems, automotive, firmware, hardware/software, or other security-critical product environments.
- Familiarity with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, vulnerability disclosure, third-party/open-source risk, and evidence automation.
- Experience evaluating GRC, compliance-automation, security-testing, or evidence-management tools; relevant security certifications.
Skills: security assurance, global compliance, Security Development Lifecycle, EU Cyber Resilience Act, IEC 62443
This role has been open 2 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
179
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$223k
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| Metric | Altera | All employers we track in this specialty (179 roles · 48 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 179 |
| Median days open | 5 d | 58 d (−53 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: security assurance, global compliance, Security Development Lifecycle, EU Cyber Resilience Act, IEC 62443
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 28 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 24 open roles · median 89 d
- Qualcomm · 20 open roles · median 106 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 93 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 11 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 35 d
How we counted: 179 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 48 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.