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Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Confidential Computing

Groq · Dallas, United States · On-site

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About Groq

Groq is the premier neocloud for fast inference. One fully integrated platform for infrastructure, inference, and control. Millions of developers run trillions of tokens on Groq every week. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.

About the role

Build the hardware-rooted security foundations that protect sensitive AI workloads across hardware and software boundaries. You will set technical direction and build security capabilities spanning firmware security, hardware trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and protected workload execution. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture spanning multiple layers of the hardware and software stack
  • Deep expertise in firmware security, hardware-rooted trust, attestation, trusted execution environments (TEEs), protected workload execution, or closely related low-level security domains
  • Deep understanding of hardware-rooted trust, including roots of trust, platform integrity, secure or measured boot, device identity, and hardware-backed attestation
  • Experience designing or implementing attestation systems and reasoning about trust across hardware, firmware, host, and workload boundaries
  • Strong understanding of firmware and low-level systems security, including boot chains, platform integrity, and security boundaries between hardware and software
  • Strong understanding of cryptographic systems, key management, certificate lifecycle, secure credential management, and secure provisioning in trusted computing environments
More about this role

About Groq

Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the world's fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads.

With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, we're uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and it's still wide open. Now let's go build it!

Build the hardware-rooted security foundations that protect sensitive AI workloads across hardware and software boundaries. You will set technical direction and build security capabilities spanning firmware security, hardware trust, attestation, trusted execution environments, and protected workload execution. As a senior technical leader, you will work close to the hardware layer and partner across hardware, firmware, systems, platform, and security engineering to solve complex security challenges at the foundation of the computing stack.

  • Set technical direction and own architecture for security capabilities spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and...

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