Principal Firmware Engineer (Security)

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Axiado
Full time
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11/14/2026
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Hyderābād, India

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, and grow a team of firmware engineers while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.
Design, develop, and optimize secure embedded software and verified boot pipelines.
Implement SPDM attestation for device authentication and remote platform measurement.
Develop secure factory and field provisioning workflows.
Design and maintain cryptographic firmware-signing infrastructure, secure update pipelines, and revocation mechanisms.
Diagnose hardware, software, and cryptographic failure modes using JTAG, GDB, and logic analyzers.
Collaborate with security experts, hardware engineers, and system architects on roadmaps and embedded security solutions.
Contribute to open-source security standards or embedded projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
20+ years of experience in embedded software development with strong C/C++ experience.
Proven experience managing and leading engineering teams while remaining active in software development and system architecture.
Expertise in Secure Boot, hardware Root of Trust, cryptography, hashing, digital signatures, and SPDM attestation.
Hands-on experience with secure provisioning, HSM integration, secure key storage, firmware signing, and lifecycle revocation architectures.
Strong knowledge of RTOS, Linux kernels, device drivers, BSPs, hardware bring-up, SPI, I2C, UART, USB, PCIe, and Ethernet.
Familiarity with PCIe root ports, SR-IOV, Yocto, Buildroot, JTAG, and GDB.
Experience with BMCs and hardware security accelerators is preferred.

Benefits

Equity is provided to every employee.
The company offers a diverse, collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and mutual support.
The role is based at the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.

Axiado

Axiado builds hardware-anchored platform security for servers and infrastructure, centered on its Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) processor with root-of-trust functions and AI-based threat detection. It sells security silicon, firmware, and reference platforms to server and network equipment m...

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