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Senior Silicon Security Engineer

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Compensation
$174–252K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google’s Security team works to protect users, developers, networks, and sensitive data. The Senior Silicon Security Engineer will drive resolution of complex security issues and focus on security silicon through partnerships with other companies. The role develops security architecture and silicon design and verification for open-source roots-of-trust projects, oversees verification workflows, coordinates vendor work, and assesses vulnerabilities in silicon designs.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security AssessmentsSecurity Design ReviewsThreat ModelingSecurity EngineeringComputer SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity ProtocolsCodingGeneral-Purpose LanguagesEDA ToolsASIC DesignASIC VerificationHardwareFirmwareSystems ProgrammingHardware System ArchitectureRisk Assessment

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience5 Years Security Assessment Experience5 Years Security Engineering Experience5 Years Coding ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.

  • 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

  • Experience with EDA tools and typical ASIC design and verification flows.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with hardware, firmware, systems programming.

  • Experience with hardware system architecture.

  • Experience with risk assessment, threat models.

About the job

There's no such thing as a "safe system" - only safer systems. Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. As a Security Engineer, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work directly with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. You also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

You use your industry experience to own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents, policy questions and technical security issues.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Work within a partnership across several companies with a dedicated focus on security silicon.

  • Develop security architecture, silicon design and verification for open source silicon projects Caliptra and OpenTitan roots of trust.

  • Oversee silicon design verification and EDA tool workflow maintenance in a code hosting platform open source context.

  • Drive external silicon design verification work through vendors.

  • Assess vulnerabilities in silicon root of trust designs.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,167 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–252K/yr
  • California median$165–248K/yr615 salary ranges
  • US median$133–208K/yr3,396 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $213K, is 3% above the California median midpoint ($206K) — in the middle half of Security Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 759 open Security Engineer jobs in California and 4,167 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,607 postings).
Education
1,537 of the 4,167 open Security Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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