Staff Cybersecurity Architect

What You Will Get To Do

• Define and lead enterprise-wide cybersecurity architecture across hardware, firmware, embedded systems, networks, robotics deployments, and cloud infrastructure.
• Threat model complex systems end-to-end, designing security controls and patterns that protect against sophisticated adversaries, including nation-state–level actors.
• Drive secure-by-design initiatives, ensuring security is embedded early in product and system lifecycles rather than bolted on later.
• Establish architectural governance, mentoring engineering teams and setting standards for modern security practices across the organization.
• Design and enforce secure build and release pipelines, including artifact signing, provenance, dependency risk management, and supply chain defenses.
• Own final security architecture decisions, including risk acceptance recommendations, and hold authority to block launches when material risks are not mitigated.
• Serve as the senior technical authority during major security incidents, guiding investigation, response, and long-term remediation.
• Conduct and guide deep technical security reviews of hardware designs, low-level software, distributed systems, and customer-facing deployments.
• Lead offensive and defensive security research, including reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and mitigation engineering.
• Prototype and validate security assumptions in real-world conditions, using adversarial emulation, proof-of-concept work, and hands-on testing.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, IT, product, and operations to align security architecture with business needs, customer requirements, and technical realities.
• Represent the organization internally and externally as a senior security authority, influencing standards, processes, and long-term direction.
• Engage with the broader security community, monitoring emerging threats and translating intelligence into proactive measures that strengthen systems over time.

What You Have

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, offensive/defensive security engineering, or equivalent deep technical domains.
• A proven record securing complex, multi-layered systems, spanning hardware, firmware, OS, networks, and applications.
• Demonstrated experience in penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research.
• Deep understanding of cryptography, authentication/authorization systems, and secure protocol design.
• Hands-on experience with secure firmware development, trusted execution environments, secure boot, embedded security, HSMs, and trusted computing technologies.
• Experience designing protections against software supply chain attacks, including secure build pipelines and dependency risk management.
• Strong ability to reason holistically across large systems, identifying risk tradeoffs and mitigating vulnerabilities at scale.
• A track record of non-linear problem solving, thriving in ambiguous, high-stakes, multi-layered environments.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain highly technical topics to audiences ranging from engineers to executives to external partners.
• A deeply curious mindset, relentless follow-through, and a passion for understanding systems all the way down to first principles.

What Will Set You Apart

• A recognized presence in the security community through CTFs, open-source contributions, conference talks, published research, or academic collaborations.
• Experience building security teams, scaling security programs, or leading architectural transformation across organizations.
• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, ISO 27001) while maintaining a focus on practical security outcomes over checkbox compliance.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent real-world expertise.
• A background in securing distributed robotics platforms, embedded edge deployments, and real-world customer environments where security needs to work outside the lab.