We are looking for a Senior Embedded Security Engineer (Qualcomm) to join our team in the UAE. The overall purpose of this role is to design, implement, integrate, and validate cybersecurity capabilities for embedded and cyber-physical systems, ensuring secure operation across hardware, firmware, operating systems, networking, and applications.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement embedded security solutions for Linux-based and embedded operating system platforms.
- Integrate Secure Boot, Chain of Trust, TEE, TPMs, Secure Elements, and hardware-backed key storage mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain security-critical software components, services, libraries, drivers, and supporting tools used across embedded platforms and security infrastructure.
- Support the design, integration, and validation of secure communication architectures and networking security controls for embedded systems.
- Configure and harden embedded Linux systems through secure kernel configurations, service hardening, and access control mechanisms.
- Support integration and validation of cryptographic services, PKI solutions, certificate management systems, and device identity frameworks.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, operating system, networking, and application teams to ensure security requirements are implemented consistently.
- Perform security analysis, threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and remediation activities.
- Develop and maintain software drivers and interfaces required for hardware security components and peripherals.
- Support secure provisioning, manufacturing security processes, key injection workflows, and secure device onboarding activities.
- Participate in security testing, verification, validation, and penetration testing activities.
- Contribute to security architecture reviews and provide technical recommendations for improving platform resilience.
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline. A Master's degree is considered an advantage.
- Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in embedded software development, embedded cybersecurity, embedded Linux development, or platform security engineering. Hands-on experience implementing security features in embedded systems is required, rather than purely governance or compliance activities.
- Good understanding of networking concepts, communication protocols, and secure communication technologies used in embedded systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior hands-on experience enabling, integrating, and validating security features on Qualcomm-based platforms is highly desirable.
- Experience with Qualcomm IQ-series platforms, Snapdragon, NVIDIA Jetson, NXP i.MX, STM32, or similar embedded platforms.
- Familiarity with Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, TrustZone, OP-TEE, PKCS#11, cryptographic libraries, and secure storage technologies.
- Strong software development skills with proficiency in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Experience in robotics, drones, automotive, industrial control systems, IoT, or other mission-critical embedded systems.
- Familiarity with industry standards such as ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 62443, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time
Language Requirements: Not specified.
