Firmware Security Engineer
Family: Low-level & domain-heavy
Secures firmware and low-level software in devices, hardening boot, updates, and hardware roots of trust against attack.
Day to day
Audits firmware for vulnerabilities, implements secure boot and signed updates, reverse-engineers binaries, and works with hardware teams on trust anchors.
Core skills
- C
- reverse engineering
- secure boot
- cryptography
- hardware interfaces
- vulnerability analysis