Hardware Security Engineer, Cisco Meraki

• 2 plus years of experience with RTL and FPGA designs, preferably with Verilog
• Understanding of common serial bus protocols like I2C, SPI, and LPC
• Are comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack
• Capable of reading and advising on board level designs, schematics, and layouts
• Skilled at reworking boards and soldering, such as SMT components
• Building and modifying boot-loaders and device drivers
• Experience with hardware security techniques and technologies, such as secure boot, crypto modules, and anti-tampering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desirable

• Collaborate with our Hardware Engineering and Cisco Security teams on component selection relating to secure boot and roots of trust
• Develop and maintain software for security chips, ranging from Linux device drivers to cloud authentication mechanisms to protect against attacks on hardware systems
• Design and implement secure hardware architectures
• Troubleshoot at the hardware and software level when things don’t go quite as planned
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers across product teams to continually improve our firmware design, development, and deployment practices
• Work with manufacturing teams to ensure security is maintained throughout the production process
• Stay up-to-date on the latest emerging hardware security threats and technologies