Distinguished Technologist - Principal Architect, Platform Security and Firmware Systems (Platform Security)

Location: Spring, Texas, United States of America; relocation is available.

Salary: $190,000–$250,000 annually, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for United States candidates.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial computing products and integrated hardware, firmware, software, cloud, and security solutions.

What you will do

• Set the architecture and roadmap for hirify.global Endpoint Security Controller hardware and firmware, including cryptographic identity, attestation, secure communications, logging, and future controller generations.
• Define hirify.global Sure Start firmware resilience, including hardware-enforced authenticity, recovery, update protection, and quantum-safe security capabilities.
• Drive secure BIOS configuration management and hirify.global Sure Admin capabilities, including key management, zero-touch provisioning, authorization, and enterprise deployment workflows.
• Lead architecture across hardware, BIOS, embedded controllers, diagnostics, cloud services, client software, manageability tools, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams.
• Anticipate emerging threats and technologies such as supply-chain security, physical tamper resistance, peripheral authentication, SPDM, DICE-style identity, and post-quantum cryptography.
• Produce specifications, proof-of-concepts, validation tools, demonstrations, and reference implementations while mentoring engineers and technical leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience in PC, embedded, firmware, hardware, or platform system architecture, preferably in commercial client systems or security-sensitive devices.
• Deep knowledge of BIOS/UEFI, embedded controllers, secure boot, firmware updates and recovery, cryptographic signing, PKI-based device identity, attestation, and secure configuration management.
• Experience architecting solutions spanning hardware, firmware, software, cloud services, manufacturing, and customer deployment environments.
• Ability to define product requirements, write technical specifications, lead proof-of-concepts, influence roadmaps, and communicate with executive, engineering, customer, sales, and field audiences.
• Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization and resolve competing technical, business, and customer priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware roots of trust, platform certificates, DICE/SPDM, supply-chain assurance, quantum-safe cryptography, secure elements, and certification frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise endpoint management platforms such as Intune, SCCM, device-management consoles, or cloud-based key management.
• Hands-on experience with PowerShell, C#, Python, Java, GitHub, Visual Studio Code, or similar tools.
• Experience with customer briefings, sales enablement, competitive analysis, standards participation, patent development, or external security collaboration.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual-contributor role with responsibility for technical direction, architectural clarity, and security investment priorities.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product management, research, manufacturing, supply chain, customer enablement, and field organizations.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, employee assistance, and flexible spending benefits.
• Paid parental leave, paid holidays, flexible vacation, and sick leave.
• Opportunities to mentor technical talent and shape differentiated commercial PC security capabilities.