Senior Security Engineer, Hardware Detection
Tools for HumanitySan Francisco, California, United States
Posted January 17, 2025
272000 - 320000 USD year
FullTime
About the Company
Tools for Humanity develops technology to promote a more just and equitable economic system.
Job Description
Senior Security Engineer, Hardware Detection role at Tools for Humanity. The role involves leveraging logs and security events to detect and respond to intrusion activity and attacks on cloud-deployed APIs as part of the global-scale World ID identity service.
Requirements
- 5-8 years experience designing and delivering security or tamper protection/detection for Linux-based hardware devices
- Experience with simple electronics design and embedded programming
- Sound knowledge of cryptographic primitives (hashes, encryption) and public key infrastructure (signing operations, trust chains)
- Ability to analyze sensor data (e.g. accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS)
- Willingness to participate in an oncall rotation and learn incident handling
- Strong critical thinking, communication, and leadership skills
- Comfort working cross-functionally with peer teams to negotiate and reach consensus solutions that improve security and privacy
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) plan and match
- Life insurance
- Flexible time off
- Commuter benefits
- Professional development stipend
