What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Product Security Engineer position at Confero?
PRODUCT SECURITY ENGINEER | ROBOTICS AI STARTUP
Confero have partnered with a Series B robotics company ($435M raised) that is building general-purpose robotic intelligence - one AI system that can control any robot for any task.
Right now, robots are specialists. A factory arm can't work in a warehouse, and a warehouse bot can't drive a forklift. This company cracked the generalist problem: one AI brain that learns once and works across completely different machines and environments. It's the GPT moment for robotics.
The Security Challenge:
Securing AI on physical robots is an unsolved problem - you've got the same AI running on completely different hardware - some robots have strong security built in, others don't. The AI needs to stay protected on all of them.
When cloud security fails, a server crashes. When robot security fails, a physical machine breaks in the real world.
What You'd Build:
Product security infrastructure:
- Threat modelling with robotics engineers, architecting the platform
- Secure-by-design architecture
- Foundational security infrastructure (secrets management, certificate rotation, secure bootstrapping)
Hardware security:
- Hardening firmware and embedded systems across heterogeneous platforms
- Confidential computing (Intel SGX/TDX, AMD SEV, ARM TrustZone)
- Securing physical interfaces (USB, JTAG, UART) and full disk encryption
- Defence against physical attacks and model extraction
You:
- >8 years in product security with hands-on hardware/embedded experience
- Deep Linux internals and systems programming
- Applied cryptography (implemented protocols, not just used libraries)
- Built security programs from 0→1, not maintained existing ones
- Bonus: Confidential computing, secure boot implementations, first security hire experience