Principal Engineer, Security Architecture

The role

The security architecture engineer will ideate and architect new enterprise security and privacy features for Samsung mobile products. This involves translating high-assurance customer needs into technical requirements and working with product management and security engineering teams.

What you will do

• Work directly with high-assurance enterprise customers to understand security and privacy requirements
• Translate customer security and privacy needs into technical security requirements, a product concept, and a business case
• Communicate customer motivations and security requirements to product management and global development teams
• Design and architect enterprise security and privacy features
• Work with product management and security engineering teams to refine proposals and prioritize solutions
• Provide expert security guidance to global development teams
• Keep up-to-date on evolving enterprise mobile security needs and emerging threats
• Identify partnership opportunities with companies serving similar customer verticals
• Validate and iterate on security feature prototypes with customers and partners

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience
• 16+ years of related industry experience
• Understanding of security architecture principles including threat, trust, and security models, access control and cryptography primitives
• Understanding of Android (or alternate mobile) software stacks, access controls, and device management
• Experience in security architecture, enterprise mobility, and user privacy
• Enterprise mobile security architecture and feature design
• Direct engagement with security-critical customer verticals, including high-assurance customers
• Translating customer needs into security requirements and technical designs
• Working with product management and global engineering teams to deliver security solutions
• Communicating security requirements and design tradeoffs to customers and engineering teams

Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility
• Generous benefits

Before you apply

• You must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer

About the company

Samsung Research America is committed to an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. Samsung KNOX is a highly secure platform built into a variety of Samsung devices.