Product Security Engineer, Operating System
1X TechnologiesSan Carlos Posted 5 March 2026
Job Description
Product Security Engineer, Operating System
San Carlos, CA (on-site)
About 1X
We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.
The Role
We are seeking a Product Security Engineer with expertise in operating system security to strengthen the foundation of our robotics platform. In this role, you will design and implement security features such as secure boot, trusted execution environments, and system service hardening. Your work will ensure that sensitive operations and data remain protected while enabling developers to follow security best practices. This position is critical to increasing the resilience and trustworthiness of our systems.
You Will
Develop and maintain secure critical services for Linux systems
Implement secure boot chains using fused hardware keys with rollback protection
Integrate OP-TEE to safeguard sensitive assets including mTLS certificates and disk encryption keys
Harden system services using least-privilege operations, systemd features, namespacing, and syscall filtering
Build hardening templates and automation tools to streamline security enforcement for developers
Automate security validation processes within CI/CD pipelines
Design and enforce device access controls for Linux systems
Contribute and ship C/C++ code (or similar) to production environments
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