Software Principal Senior Engineer

Software Principal Senior Engineer

Join us as a Software Principal Senior Engineer on our Security Development team in Bucharest, Romania to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What you will achieve

As a Principal Senior Software Engineer on our Security Development team, you will be responsible for developing and integrating sophisticated systems with a focus on building and integrating security-based tools.

You will

Be part of the code signing team, contributing to the end-to-end signing process. Acting as a liaison for the HSM and Firmware signing processes.

Offer support for firmware teams with both signing and validating operations.

Research new signing mechanism including PQC (LMS) while keep the team up to date with the latest trend in code signing.

Work with system and software architects on feature definitions, requirements, and behavior specifications. Work with both internal groups and external vendors / partners / ODMs and define interface / protocol specifications.

Contribute to the design and architecture of high-quality, complex application software. Debug complex system software issues using analyzers and other hardware debug tools.

Take the first step towards your dream career

Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here is what we are looking for with this role :

Essential Requirements

BSEE, BSCE, BSCS or related degree, strong programming skills in C / C++, understanding the principles of software design and programming; ability to understand the requirements and communicate sophisticated technical issues precisely and clearly

Strong understanding of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, including encryption and digital signature. Knowledge of any cryptographic standard is considered a plus (PKCS11, ASN1, Secure Boot, PKI infrastructure etc.)

Strong debugging skills, including the ability to extract different data types from binary payloads and write tools to support such activities.

It’s considered a plus, experience with UEFI, EDK, and firmware drivers, experience with HII implementation; experience with x86 and ARM architecture, CPU, memory controllers, and IO hubs, experience in industry specifications such as PCI, ACPI, and USB

Desirable Requirements

Familiarity with Agile methodologies, as well as with using the Atlassian suite of tools and Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), including threat modeling, Familiarity with standard hardware protocols, CI / CD best practices, automation frameworks (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure etc.).

Experience in firmware or BIOS / UEFI development, Scripting (Python), and assembly experience. Experience with NVIDIA product lines, including AI frameworks, system-on-chip (Soc) solutions. Good understanding of trust boundaries and threat modeling methodologies like STRIDE and DREAD