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Firmware Engineer

HP1,038 open roles

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$105,050 – $161,800 a year
Where
Vancouver, Washington, United States of America
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Firmware Engineer

Description -

HP is seeking an experienced Embedded Security Engineer to drive the development, integration, and evolution of security technologies for enterprise printing products.

This role focuses on platform security solutions, including Smart Card authentication, PKI-based security services, and Supplies Security (Gauss) technologies. The successful candidate will lead security architecture, firmware development, platform integration, and security validation activities throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise in embedded security, cryptography, secure firmware development, and system-level problem solving while contributing to HP's next-generation security platform strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and lifecycle management of security-related firmware and platform services.
  • Develop and maintain Smart Card authentication solutions, including CAC/PIV workflows, certificate management, PIN-based authentication, and enterprise identity integration.
  • Drive development and integration of Supplies Security (Gauss) technologies, including security firmware, middleware, device drivers, and platform interfaces.
  • Design and implement cryptographic services, secure storage, key management, and authentication mechanisms.
  • Port, integrate, and maintain third-party security solutions and middleware within embedded firmware platforms.
  • Define security architecture, threat models, validation strategies, and secure software development practices.
  • Lead security verification, debugging, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex firmware, hardware, and platform security issues.
  • Collaborate with firmware, hardware, QA, operating system, and security teams to ensure secure and reliable product delivery.
  • Work directly with external technology partners and vendors to support solution integration, issue resolution, and long-term technology planning.
  • Collaborate and communicate with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding firmware design status, project progress, and issue resolution.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in firmware and security technologies and provide recommendations for improvement.

Impact & Scope

  • Impacts multiple teams and may act as a team or project leader, providing direction to team activities and facilitating information validation and team decision-making processes.
  • Complexity
  • Responds to moderately complex issues within established guidelines.

Leadership Expectations

  • Provide technical leadership in strategic security technology areas.
  • Drive architecture decisions and long-term technology direction.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of team technical capabilities.
  • Work effectively across global engineering organizations.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering and business stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.

4+ years of work experience or an advanced degree with 3+ years of work experience in:

  • Strong experience in embedded software or firmware development using C/C++.
  • Solid understanding of security architecture, authentication technologies, and secure firmware development.
  • Experience with cryptographic technologies, PKI, certificate management, and secure authentication mechanisms.
  • Experience integrating security solutions into commercial embedded products.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across firmware, hardware, and system integration layers.

Preferred Qualifications

Smart Card / Platform Security

  • Experience with Smart Card technologies, including CAC/PIV authentication, certificate validation, and enterprise identity integration.
  • Knowledge of PKI infrastructure, X.509 certificates, CRL/CDP processing, and secure access workflows.

Supplies Security (Gauss)

  • Experience with security chip technologies, device drivers, middleware, and platform integration.
  • Familiarity with secure storage, key management, cryptographic validation, and hardware-based security architecture.

Additional Preferences

  • Experience working with enterprise firmware platforms.
  • Familiarity with commercial printing or imaging products.
  • Experience collaborating with global engineering teams and external technology partners..

Benefits The pay range for this role is $105,050 to $161,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long term/short term disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • Generous time off policies, including;
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job -

Software

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

No

Relocation -

Yes

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).

Please be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.

For more information, review HP’s EEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal"

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