Who We Are
Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Device Security, you will play a key role in helping Humane lead the industry in advancing the security of AI devices, and empowering users with control of their privacy and personal data in the quickly evolving AI-driven world. Privacy and security are table stakes at Humane, and absolutely integral to our success as a dynamic company with a deep commitment to product.
You will own projects through their entire life cycle, building secure systems for our innovative devices by threat modeling, designing secure architectures, and implementing them. This role focuses on designing and implementing solutions across the entire software stack of our embedded systems, including the way they interface with the outside world, in a way that provides joyful user experiences without compromising privacy & security. The technology that you will create will maintain and strengthen the trust that Humane promises to our users.
What You Might Do
- Lead the design and implementation of embedded device security architecture from the ground up. This includes using the best industry standard cryptography practices for things like secure key management systems, hardware secure boot, PKI, efficient encryption of data, and more.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the CoreOS, Firmware, Design, and Cloud Services teams to create robust security features.
- Develop custom TrustZone or native kernel applications to enhance hardware-backed identity solutions and data protection.
- Work on high-profile projects, such as secure backup and restore systems, that require secure and efficient data handling.
- Interface with biometric sensors to create secure channels for data flow inside and outside device boundaries.
- Assist in vulnerability management, and apply secure SDLC practices across the company.
Essential Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in secure programming in embedded system or AOSP environments, primarily in C, C++, or Java.
- Strong understanding of general embedded systems security concepts, including establishing roots of trust, secure boot, cryptography, PKI, or application sandboxing.
- Experience in firmware security, OS-level security, or network security.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and lead multi-disciplinary projects from concept to deployment.
- Experience in designing secure interfaces with biometric sensors, custom PKI handling, or factory flow processes.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to assess attack surface and threat models across many different features.
- Deep understanding (OR deep desire to learn) of cryptography, security, and privacy theory and practices.
Preferred Skills
- Background in embedded systems like consumer electronics, IoT, medical, or payment devices or systems.
- Experience with AOSP and Linux security, including TrustZone, TEE, AVB, Keystore, and SELinux.
Salary: $216,000- $288,000
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
- The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
- At Humane, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings. Our portfolio of benefits include: comprehensive healthcare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 401K plan
- Humane employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks
Why Humane?
- Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
- Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
- Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
- Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
- Our values: trust truth +joy
At Humane, diversity is important to us.
Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.
At Humane, diversity is important to us.
apply nowHumane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”).
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.