Product Security Architect

Product Security Architect

TP-Link Systems Inc. is seeking a Product Security Architect to lead product security architecture across its networking, smart home, and connected-device portfolio.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Security, the Product Security Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for advancing secure-by-design practices across TP-Link's product lines. The role partners with R&D, product management, manufacturing, legal, and regulatory teams to ensure that security is designed into products from concept through development, manufacturing, release, and ongoing support, and that products continue to meet applicable industry standards and regulatory requirements throughout their supported life.

The Product Security Architect translates TP-Link's product security strategy into reusable security architectures, practical engineering requirements, and consistent design guidance for embedded, cloud, and mobile components, and provides technical leadership for architecture review, threat modeling, vulnerability response, and the integration of security tooling, automation, and AI-assisted analysis into engineering workflows.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Set the security architecture strategy for TP-Link's connected-device products.
• Develop security requirements, reference architectures, and design patterns that engineering teams can use.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for major products, platforms, and features.
• Guide security from first design through end of support, including manufacturing and device provisioning.
• Provide technical direction for device identity, secure boot, roots of trust, code signing, key management, and secure updates.
• Lead the integration of SAST, software composition analysis, SBOM generation, firmware analysis, and binary analysis into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
• Establish how tool findings, third-party components, and software supply chain risk get tracked and fixed across products.
• Use AI and automation to make architecture reviews, code analysis, vulnerability investigation, and remediation faster and more consistent.
• Provide technical leadership for PSIRT and complex vulnerability investigations.
• Advise R&D, Product Management, Manufacturing, Legal, Regulatory, Communications, and company leadership on significant product security risks and decisions.
• Mentor security and engineering teams. Represent Product Security with customers, security researchers, certification bodies, and other external stakeholders when needed.

Requirements include:

• 10+ years in product security, embedded systems security, security architecture, secure product engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or significantly improving a product security program for connected devices or other products where security is critical.
• Principal architect, technical lead, or comparable senior individual contributor experience spanning multiple products or engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of embedded and connected-device security, especially trust boundaries, device identity, provisioning, applied cryptography, firmware integrity, and secure updates.
• Experience implementing SAST, SCA, or comparable tooling in a complex, multi-product build environment.
• A strong record of leading PSIRT work, complex vulnerability investigations, coordinated disclosure, root cause analysis, and remediation across products or platforms.
• Able to turn regulatory and certification requirements into engineering controls and influence technical and business teams across a global organization.
• Familiarity with the EU Cyber Resilience Act, ETSI EN 303 645, UK PSTI, the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, NIST IR 8259, and other related connected-product security requirements.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Background in networking, telecommunications, consumer electronics, smart home products, or another industry where product security is not optional.
• Work involving secure manufacturing, device provisioning, firmware signing, key injection, or product supply chain security.
• Comfortable working with embedded Linux or RTOS products and complex firmware build environments.
• Stood up a product security tooling platform from scratch, including tool selection and rollout.
• Built or run AI-assisted security tools or workflows in a product security setting.
• Product certification, conformity assessment, cybersecurity labeling, or regulatory readiness experience.
• Mandarin proficiency or experience working closely with engineering and manufacturing teams in China.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a closely related technical discipline is required.
• Master's degree in a relevant technical field is a plus.

Salary Range: $195,000-$205,000

Benefits:

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Over four weeks of PTO per year
• Bi-annual pay increases
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events