Hardware Security Engineer

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.

• We are seeking a Hardware Security Engineer to join our dynamic team focused on device security and hardware validation.
• This role is essential in ensuring our products meet the highest security standards through comprehensive requirement verification, security assessment, and implementation oversight.
• You will work at the intersection of hardware design, security engineering, and manufacturing processes to deliver secure, reliable products to millions of customers worldwide.

• This Hardware Security Engineering role focuses on verifying and validating security across the entire hardware lifecycle for devices.
• You will evaluate System-on-a-Chip (SoC) security features including secure boot implementation, fault injection protection, secure key storage, anti-rollback mechanisms, cryptographic key management, and debug interface restrictions.
• You will be responsible for performing code reviews and identifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• You will also interface directly with manufacturers and will work with them to review security requirement compliance evidence and will help them mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Success in this position requires partnering with multiple stakeholders to accomplish these tasks.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in hardware security, embedded systems security, or similar
• Experience programming in at least one modern language such as C, C++, or Rust
• Strong knowledge of secure boot implementations, cryptography (RSA, AES, HMAC, PQC), and hardware security architectures (e.g. ARM Trust Zone or Intel SGX)
• Knowledge of debug interface security (JTAG, BDM), anti-rollback mechanisms, and fault injection protection
• Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
• Experience with hardware security testing tools and methodologies
• Secure boot implementation for embedded systems, Systems on a Chip (SoC), and processors
• Cryptography
• Experience in programming language, C or C++

• Master's degree in relevant technical field or equivalent advanced experience
• Experience with DRM implementations and content protection systems
• Experience designing or reviewing RTL designs in VHDL or Ver
• Knowledge of side-channel attack analysis and associated countermeasures
• Hands-on experience testing, debugging, or hacking hardware using common electronics test equipment
• Experience with penetration testing or hacking consumer electronic devices
• Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
• Experience designing, testing, and analyzing circuit designs and PCB layouts

• Bias for action and deliver results
• Qwnership

• 5+ years ideally- HM is hiring for 2 roles, slightly different and wants the total number of years experience to equate to 10 years between the 2 hires

• NOT looking for cyber security or network security- if this is the only relevant experience, will be DQ

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

Tek Wissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.