Staff Firmware Engineer - Device Security

About the Device Security Team

Verkada’s device security team has an important mission–empower the company to build the safest physical security products in the world.  We are directly responsible for the development of important defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices.  We help maintain and expand security testing infrastructure that constantly evaluates devices for security vulnerabilities.  And we help the company build stronger and more resilient products through our offensive security evaluation efforts.  If you’re interested in firmware and like having a huge impact, we want to hear from you!

Firmware Engineer Day-to-Day:

• Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of “Security says No”.
• Build out new features in our main on-device security component.
• Work with other engineering product teams to ensure Verkada Linux is integrated into their firmware deliverables.
• Maintain physical device security infrastructure, such as the offline secure boot code signing facility and device security testing robots.
• Secure the firmware supply chain by building tools to check dependencies are up to date and vulnerabilities are patched.
• Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about embedded IoT security.
• Contribute to other parts of the team (cloud, backend, offensive testing), should that interest you.

Experience:

• 10+ years developing Linux applications, preferably for embedded systems, and preferably in C, C++, or Go.
• Past experience in multiple domains, such as: register-level hardware, bus architectures, device drivers, operating systems, system applications, networking, and wireless protocols.
• Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture, and comfortable in multiple areas, such as: register-level hardware, bus architectures, device drivers, operating systems, client, applications, networks & networking protocols, radio, 
• Strong knowledge of the Linux operating system, including important commands & files.
• Have worked in an agile team environment.

Nice to Have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.  Non-traditional backgrounds are OK to apply as well!
• Yocto, openwrt, or other embedded Linux build systems.
• Interest or working knowledge of cryptography.
• Experience with Linux kernel patches, security focused programming, low-level system components, bootloaders, kernel modules, or secure boot.
• Familiarity with various electrical interfaces such as SPI, I2C, JTAG, MMC, etc. and test equipment like oscilloscopes.
• Hacker mindset, or interest in knowing more.

Perks & Benefits: 

• Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage 
• Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays 
• Wellness allowance 
• Commuter benefits 
• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily 
• Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits