Senior FPGA Security Architect (Aerospace, Defense & Government)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $200.4K–$290.1K USD annually for the Bay Area California region

Company

hirify.global develops programmable logic and adaptive compute platforms for mission-critical systems.

What you will do

• Advise aerospace, defense, and government customers on FPGA security architectures, threat models, and risk tradeoffs.
• Translate mission, regulatory, and customer requirements into practical security recommendations.
• Design and review approaches for bitstream encryption, authentication, IP protection, secure boot, device identity, and key management.
• Address anti-tamper, cloning, reverse engineering, side-channel, fault-injection, supply-chain, and lifecycle-security risks.
• Support pre-sales engagements, RFIs, RFPs, architecture reviews, technical workshops, and customer security assessments.
• Collaborate with Sales, Field Applications Engineers, Product Planning, security, engineering, and product teams to influence FPGA security roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in FPGA design, SoC architecture, or hardware security.
• Strong knowledge of FPGA architectures, configuration flows, development tools, and FPGA security features.
• Experience with bitstream encryption, secure boot, key management, device authentication, and customer-facing technical advisory work.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, or government programs and communicating complex security topics to technical and program stakeholders.
• Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with SoC FPGAs and ARM-based embedded processors.
• Knowledge of anti-tamper, IP protection, physically unclonable functions, cryptographic implementations, and constrained hardware environments.
• Familiarity with hardware security standards, supply-chain security, trusted manufacturing, device provenance, and long-term sustainment.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.
• Incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.
• Customer-facing collaboration with Sales, Field Applications Engineering, Product Planning, security, and engineering stakeholders.
• Engagement with aerospace, defense, government, and other highly regulated programs.