Software Security Engineer (Embedded Cryptography)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Company

hirify.global develops advanced defense systems and flight technologies at an early stage of company growth.

What you will do

• Design secure boot chains, hardware-backed roots of trust, and firmware verification for embedded flight systems.
• Develop and integrate encryption, authentication, key exchange, hashing, and digital signature solutions.
• Own code-signing infrastructure and verification workflows for firmware, flight software, and field updates.
• Design 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 with embedded, avionics, hardware, and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience with exposure to applied cryptography or security engineering.
• 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 with Linux-based or embedded environments.
• Access to export-controlled information may require U.S. government authorization, security clearance, citizenship, or other eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage environment with significant ownership and direct impact on defense and flight-system capabilities.
• Cross-functional collaboration across embedded, avionics, hardware, and infrastructure engineering.
• Generous benefits package.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available throughout the hiring process.