Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Confidential Computing at Groq in New York, NY

Job description

Mission: Build the hardware-rooted security foundations that protect sensitive AI workloads across hardware and software boundaries. You will set technical direction and build security capabilities spanning firmware security, hardware trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and protected workload execution. As a senior technical leader, you will work close to the hardware layer and partner across hardware, firmware, systems, platform, and security engineering to solve complex security challenges at the foundation of the computing stack. Location: This role will be based in one of our three hiring hubs: the Dallas, San Francisco, or New York City area . The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas. You’ll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens. Responsibilities & opportunities in this role: Set technical direction and own architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and protected workload execution. Design and build security architectures for hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and hardware-backed isolation. Architect attestation capabilities that establish and verify trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries. Partner deeply with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to shape platform integrity, secure and measured boot, device identity, and other hardware-rooted security capabilities. Design security capabilities that enable protected workload execution while maintaining trust throughout the workload lifecycle. Design secure approaches for cryptographic key material, credentials, identity, certificates, and provisioning within trusted computing environments. Shape security for the lifecycle of trusted compute infrastructure, from provisioning and platform initialization through operation and decommissioning. Lead threat modeling and security analysis across hardware, firmware, host software, and workload execution, identifying systemic risks and driving durable mitigations. Develop systems software, security tooling, and automation that make hardware-backed security capabilities reliable and operable at scale. Lead security-sensitive designs across organizational boundaries, translating complex hardware and systems risks into practical engineering decisions. Establish technical patterns and influence security direction across hardware, firmware, systems, platform, and security engineering. Partner across engineering and security to build capabilities that strengthen customer trust, platform reliability, and support compliance requirements. Clearly communicate trust models, security architecture, technical tradeoffs, and risk to engineers, technical leaders, and security leadership. Ideal candidates have/are: 6+ years of systems, firmware, hardware, or security engineering experience, with deep expertise in low-level systems security and experience with hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, confidential computing, or related technologies. Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture spanning multiple layers of the hardware and software stack. Deep expertise in firmware security, hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments (TEEs), protected workload execution, or closely related low-level security domains. Deep understanding of hardware-rooted trust, including roots of trust, platform integrity, secure or measured boot, device identity, and hardware-backed attestation. Experience designing or implementing attestation systems and reasoning about trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries. Strong understanding of firmware and low-level systems security, including boot chains, platform integrity, and security boundaries between hardware and software. Stro