Software Engineer, Pixel System Security

Job Description

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer, Pixel System Security. Location: Mountain View, California, USA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and development of next-generation secure boot mechanisms for Google Pixel devices.
• Design and manage secure manufacturing lifecycle state transitions across the Pixel platform.
• Partner with custom silicon engineering teams to conduct security architecture reviews for future System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
• Improve platform security through ROM hardening, secure provisioning, and cryptographic accelerator integration.
• Develop secure device authentication workflows and strengthen hardware binding to protect against supply chain threats.
• Lead production cryptographic key creation ceremonies and oversee secure key management processes;
• Collaborate with operating system security teams to align platform security architecture and implementation.
• Drive technical direction for large-scale security initiatives while mentoring engineering teams.
• Design secure, scalable software architectures for embedded systems and platform security.
• Contribute to the development of next-generation technologies supporting Google's Pixel ecosystem.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience working with embedded systems and system security.
• 3 years of experience in software design and architecture;
• Strong experience developing secure embedded software and platform security solutions.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience in embedded systems, operating system internals, or systems security architecture.
• 3 years of experience leading engineering teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience collaborating with silicon engineering teams.
• Experience building secure bootloaders, hardware roots of trust, and secure key management systems.
• Familiarity with Post-Quantum Cryptography (ML-DSA).
• Knowledge of attestation frameworks such as DICE.
• Experience with memory-safe programming languages such as Rust.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Annual salary: $207,000 to $301,000 USD.
• Target annual bonus of 20%.
• Equity compensation.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package;
• Opportunities to work on industry-leading mobile security technologies.
• Career growth within Google's engineering organization.