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Salary: CAD 146,000 - 195,000 / annual
Motive is seeking a Security Engineer focused on Hardware/Device security to join the Product Security Team. This is a strategic, technical role for an architect who wants to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence.
You will be the primary security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, driving hardware security initiatives across the organization. Your responsibilities include building the hardware and embedded security baseline and process across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA (firmware-over-the-air), and manufacturing. You will lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems.
Key responsibilities:
- Build hardware and embedded security baselines and processes across Motive devices
- Drive relationships with hardware engineering teams to ensure findings are prioritized, validated, and remediated
- Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle (design, manufacturing, deployment, updating, decommissioning)
- Lead hardware security architecture reviews and threat modeling exercises
- Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, firmware interfaces, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments
- Drive end-to-end security for device hardware across IoT and cloud security infrastructure
Required qualifications:
- 5+ years of hardware security experience, including creating security-by-design patterns for new devices and platforms
- 5+ years working with product teams on security designs and requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on development experience in Python and C/C++
- Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, reviewing, and validating security controls for hardware and low-level system architectures
- Experience in cloud security, runtime security, supply chain security, and application security best practices
Motive empowers people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. The platform serves nearly 100,000 customers across transportation, logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, and other industries.
