Product Security Architect (Embedded Systems)

Location: Torrance, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage defense company developing and delivering advanced defense and flight systems.

What you will do

• Design and implement secure boot chains, hardware-backed roots of trust, and firmware verification for embedded flight systems.
• Develop and integrate encryption, authentication, key exchange, digital signature, and other cryptographic mechanisms.
• Own code-signing infrastructure and verification workflows for firmware, flight software, and field updates.
• Design secure key generation, storage, rotation, and provisioning across development, manufacturing, and deployed environments.
• Implement authenticated and encrypted communications between vehicles, ground systems, and internal subsystems.
• Conduct threat modeling and security reviews while integrating security architecture with embedded, avionics, hardware, and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with applied cryptography or security engineering exposure.
• Experience implementing encryption, authentication, or digital signatures in C, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages.
• Strong understanding of PKI, TLS, key exchange, hashing, and digital signatures.
• Experience working in Linux-based or embedded environments.
• Access to export-controlled information may require eligibility to satisfy applicable U.S. Government requirements and obtain security clearance or other authorization if designated.

Nice to have

• Experience with secure boot, hardware roots of trust, code-signing pipelines, TPMs, HSMs, or secure elements.
• Background in embedded, aerospace, defense, safety-critical, or manufacturing systems.
• Experience with secure provisioning, real-time systems, resource-constrained devices, mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, or replay protection.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage environment with significant ownership and direct impact on the company mission.
• Close collaboration across embedded, avionics, hardware, and infrastructure engineering.
• Generous benefits package.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.