Product Security- Embedded / IoT

Position: Product Security- Embedded / IoT Job Description: Job Description: Product Security Engineer, Embedded / IoT  Experience: 2 to 10 years  Role Overview  We are looking for product security professionals with hands-on experience in assessing and securing embedded systems and IoT products.  The role involves performing product security assessments, conducting VAPT, developing threat models and security requirements, reviewing security controls, and supporting SSDLC activities. The selected candidate will work closely with hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering teams to identify vulnerabilities, recommend practical mitigations, and validate remediation.  Key Skills  Understanding of embedded product architecture, microcontrollers, processors, bootloaders, memory, storage, and embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments. Ability to interpret hardware block diagrams, relevant schematic sections, and firmware architecture.  Hands-on experience assessing debug, programming, or communication interfaces such as UART, JTAG/SWD, SPI, I²C, and USB. Familiarity with device debugging, flash access, firmware acquisition, and evaluation of debug and readout protections.  Experience with firmware extraction or acquisition, unpacking, filesystem analysis, configuration review, and static and/or dynamic analysis. Ability to identify hardcoded credentials, exposed secrets, insecure services, weak permissions, vulnerable components, and weaknesses in firmware update mechanisms.  Experience conducting manual and tool-assisted security testing of physical devices, firmware, and exposed interfaces. Ability to validate vulnerabilities, distinguish false positives, demonstrate impact safely, and recommend relevant remediation.  Working knowledge of threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, security risk assessment, product security requirements, secure design review, and security validation. Understanding of assets, data flows, trust boundaries, attack scenarios, and requirement-to-test traceability.  Understanding of secure boot, firmware signing, secure OTA updates, rollback protection, authentication, authorization, cryptographic key storage, certificate management, secure communications, and production security configuration.  Knowledge of TCP/IP and relevant embedded or IoT interfaces and protocols, such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi, BLE, CAN, MQTT, HTTP(S), and TLS. Experience capturing and analyzing traffic and assessing communication security.  Ability to understand C/C++ code and develop or modify Python or shell scripts.  Experience with relevant tools such as Ghidra or IDA, Binwalk, GDB, OpenOCD, Wireshark, Nmap, flash programmers, debug probes, and logic analyzers.  Familiarity with SAST, SCA, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) analysis.  Job Responsibilities