
Motive
Actively Hiring
Artificial intelligence-powered hardware & software company powering the physical economy
- Responds within two weeksBased on past data, Motive usually responds to incoming applications within two weeks
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- +4
Security Engineer, Hardware/Device
- $146k – $195k CAD
- |Remote () •
- |Full Time
Posted: 5 days ago• Recruiter recently active
Job Location
Visa Sponsorship
Not Available
RelocationNot Allowed
Hiring contact
Kirk Okenquist
Employee

About the job
About the Role:
As a Security Engineer, Hardware Security you will be a key member of the Product Security Team. You will be the primary Security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, focusing on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable "secure-by-default" components (libraries, services, frameworks, components) that empower hardware engineers to ship the product securely. You will work across teams, influencing security and driving the hardware security initiative.
This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence, focusing on design, automation, and enablement.
What You’ll Do:
- Build the hardware and embedded security baseline and process across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing
- Drive relationships with hardware engineering team to ensure findings are prioritized, validated and remediated
- Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle including designing, manufacturing, deployment, updating, and decommissioning
- Lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems
- 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 andcloud security infrastructure
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years years of experience in Hardware Security, including creating security by design patterns into new devices and platforms
- 5+ years of experience in working with product teams creating security designs and providing security requirements
- 5+ years of hands on development experience in the programming languages like python and C/C++
- Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning concepts.
- 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
About the company

Motive
Actively Hiring
1001-5000
Startup
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
B2B · SaaS · Mobile · Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Responds within two weeksBased on past data, Motive usually responds to incoming applications within two weeks
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- 4.5Highly ratedMotive is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.5 out of 5 stars
- 4.3Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Motive 4.3/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
Perks
Medical
Motive will cover 90% of PPO and HMO medical premiums for Employee Only, and 75% for Dependents and 100% of the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) medical premiums for Employee only and 75% for Dependents.
401K
Hosted through Empower Retirement with a company match!
Daily Lunch
Healthy catered lunch every day from Nybll.
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