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Security Engineer, Device/Hardware

Motive

Company websitegomotive.com (Motive, opens in new tab)

Base salary $160K  to $205K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY +5 more

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  • LocationNew York, NY +5 more
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
All places named
  • New York, NY
  • Hybrid - Austin, Texas
  • Hybrid - Buffalo
  • Hybrid - Nashville, Tennessee
  • Hybrid - San Francisco, California
  • Hybrid - Seattle

About this job

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

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 and cloud 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

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting
Motive Perks & Benefits

The base compensation range for this role is:

$160,000—$205,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

Regarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.

Non-compete covenant terms in all other jurisdictions will be subject to the applicable statutory requirements, including but not limited to, procedures, industry related prohibitions, or salary and compensation thresholds.

All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.

Source: Motive on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($160,000) is above 69% of the 72 IT & Security roles in Texas listed on this site. Their median floor is $157,238; the middle half runs from $130,375 to $162,800.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Motive roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Motive roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Security Engineer, Device/Hardware (this listing)$160K - $205K
Senior Analytics Engineer - GTM$149K - $205K
Senior Manager, IT Engineering$140K - $190K
Technical Program Manager$140K - $200K
Telematics Coverage Engineer$140K - $170K
Director, Product Strategy & Monetization$185K - $255K
Staff Software Engineer - Backend$189K - $225K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Motive roles · How to read the bar

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  2. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-10-26
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Location as the employer wrote it: Hybrid - Austin, Texas; Hybrid - Buffalo, New York; Hybrid - Nashville, Tennessee; Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle

USD 160,000 – 205,000 · interval unstated · pay_input_range · The base compensation range for this role is: · base-labelled (R1: base compensation)

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