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Software Engineer, Device Security, Level 4

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA / San Diego, CA)$157k - $235kFull timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Software Engineer role on the Specs Security team at Snap Inc., focusing on on-device security for Specs and related hardware/software surfaces, including security features, privacy controls, and validation pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and harden on-device security systems for Specs, including permissions, access control, secure IPC, sandboxing, and trusted execution boundaries.
  • Develop security and privacy controls for on-device AI features, including model integrity, sensitive data handling, inference-time privacy protections, local policy enforcement, and secure access to sensors, user data, and system capabilities.
  • Research, design, and implement security features that improve the security posture of Specs across Snap OS, firmware, applications, system services, and cloud-connected device surfaces.
  • Improve fuzzing infrastructure, automated security testing, and continuous validation pipelines for OS components, IPC mechanisms, parsers, services, drivers, firmware interfaces, and AI-related data flows.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2+ years of experience building security, privacy, or platform protection features for Linux-based, embedded, mobile, wearable, or connected device systems.
  • Experience with applied cryptography, authentication, authorization, secure communications, key management, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, or system security for embedded or Linux-based systems.

Skills

Required:Linux-based system securityPermission systems and sandboxingOn-device AI security controls

Benefits

  • paid parental leave
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • emotional and mental health support programs
  • compensation packages that allow sharing in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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