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Security Firmware Engineer

Rivian

Rivian

Palo Alto, CA, USA · United States
Posted on Sep 25, 2025

Job Description

About Rivian

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.


Role Summary

We're looking for an experienced Security Firmware Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining secure firmware for our products, focusing on protecting device integrity from the earliest stages of boot.


Responsibilities

● Design and Implement Firmware: Develop secure firmware components, including bootloaders, boot ROM, and secure boot mechanisms.
● Cryptography Integration: Integrate and optimize cryptographic libraries for encryption, authentication, and secure key management.
● Security Vulnerability Analysis: Analyze firmware for potential security vulnerabilities and develop robust countermeasures.
● Code Review and Testing: Conduct thorough code reviews and develop unit tests to ensure firmware reliability and security.
● Collaboration: Work closely with hardware, software, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and validation of secure firmware solutions.


Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a
    related field.
  • Experience: A minimum of 10 years of professional experience working as a Security Firmware Engineer or in a similar role.
  • Programming: Proficiency in the C programming language is required.
  • Firmware & Boot Process: Strong, proven experience writing bootloaders, boot ROM, and/or secure boot mechanisms.
  • Cryptography: A deep understanding of cryptography concepts, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and hashing functions.
  • Experience with ARM TrustZone or other hardware security extensions or cryptographic hardware accelerators

Additional Skills
Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) principles.

Familiarity with various debugging tools like JTAG and protocol analyzers.

Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS).

Experience with source control tools such as Git




Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.