Senior Lead Security Engineer
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Location: Seattle, WA 98115
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Job Description
Join a team where you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of a world-renowned company and make a direct and meaningful impact in a space designed for top performers.
As a Senior Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Cybersecurity and Tech Controls, you play a crucial role in meeting pre-defined functional and user requirements while also ensuring the prevention of misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. Your technical expertise and problem-solving skills will be instrumental in addressing a wide range of cybersecurity challenges across various technology domains, thereby promoting significant business impact.
Job responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Join a team where you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of a world-renowned company and make a direct and meaningful impact in a space designed for top performers.
As a Senior Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Cybersecurity and Tech Controls, you play a crucial role in meeting pre-defined functional and user requirements while also ensuring the prevention of misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. Your technical expertise and problem-solving skills will be instrumental in addressing a wide range of cybersecurity challenges across various technology domains, thereby promoting significant business impact.
Job responsibilities
- Design and implement secure provisioning, attestation, and verification processes across the hardware and firmware lifecycle
- Collaborate with silicon vendors, OEM partners, and internal teams to validate trust anchors and lifecycle events
- Contribute to architecture and tooling that supports device integrity verification, secure boot enforcement, and firmware transparency
- Build workflows for firmware and hardware telemetry ingestion, anomaly detection, and audit reporting
- Participate in internal and partner-side supply chain threat modeling, security reviews, and mitigation design
- Maintain awareness of evolving supply chain threats, secure hardware standards, and low-level vulnerability classes
- Facilitates security requirements clarification for multiple networks to enable multi-level security to satisfy organizational needs
- Works with stakeholders and senior business leaders to recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability
- Be responsible for triaging based on risk assessments of various threats and managing resources to cover impact of disruptive events
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering, computer science, or data science concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong background in security engineering, hardware/firmware systems, or supply chain risk mitigation.
- Deep knowledge of firmware architectures (UEFI, BIOS, BMC, NVMe, etc.).
- Familiarity with open-source firmware projects (e.g., coreboot, U-Boot, OpenBMC).
- Experience with cryptographic primitives used in attestation (e.g., ECC, SHA, PCRs, X.509).
- Proficient in Go, Rust, or C/C++ for low-level systems development.
- Understanding of SBOM, firmware signing, and secure boot workflows.
- Practical knowledge of threat vectors at the silicon/firmware interface.
- Experience implementing secure supply chain workflows.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Prior Financial Industry experience a plus
About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.