Artificial Intelligence

Hardware Security Engineer, New Grad (2027)

RemoteRemoteInternship$140,000–$150,000 /yrPosted 22 days ago

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Required skills

Hardware Security Engineer
New Grad
2027
AI systems
security controls
Python
Bash
AI-assisted security apps
hardware
firmware

Nice to have

security engineering experience
internships
hackathons
projects
hardware security
embedded security

Role summary

Together AI is seeking a New Grad Hardware Security Engineer to contribute to building secure AI systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating security controls across hardware, firmware, OS, and cloud services. Responsibilities include assessing platform security, supporting the secure lifecycle, building automation tools in Python/Bash, and developing AI-assisted security applications. The ideal candidate is pursuing a degree in a related field, has foundational knowledge in computer architecture and OS, and strong programming skills. Preferred qualifications include prior security engineering experience and familiarity with embedded systems and hardware security concepts.

About the Role

As a Hardware Security Engineer, you’ll contribute to building open, transparent, and secure AI systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects that safeguard corporate assets by implementing and operating preventative and reactive security controls while collaborating with teams and stakeholders across the company. We’re looking for an intern that is interested in building AI-assisted security apps.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, and implement security solutions for AI infrastructure across hardware, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services, including BMCs, TPMs, secure boot chains, networking interfaces, and workload identity systems.

Assess and improve the security posture of server and accelerator platforms, including firmware update processes, device identity, trusted execution, and hardware-backed cryptography.

Support the secure platform lifecycle, from device onboarding, provisioning, and inventory through configuration validation and decommissioning.

Build automation and internal tools in Python, Bash, or similar languages to collect platform telemetry, detect configuration drift, and support incident investigation.

Build AI-assisted security applications for asset classification, anomaly detection, and detection-and-response workflows.

Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to implement and enforce identity, access-control, endpoint, and privileged-access security practices.

Research and evaluate emerging technologies such as confidential computing, remote attestation, hardware roots of trust, and secure device management.

Write clean, well-documented code, technical designs, test plans, and security findings.

Requirements

Actively pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field expected by Summer 2027

Foundational understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, embedded systems, digital logic, or electronics

Strong programming skills with a proficiency in Python or bash

Exposure to building AI-assisted applications

Preferred Qualifications

Prior security engineering experience through internships, hackathons, or projects

Coursework, projects, research, or internship experience in hardware security, embedded security, platform security, computer architecture, or secure systems design

Experience with one or more of the following: Microcontrollers, FPGA development, board bring-up, JTAG/SWD debugging, serial interfaces, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, or Ethernet

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $140,000 - $150,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Application Policy

Please read each role carefully and apply to the position best suited to you. Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period, and applications beyond that limit will be automatically rejected. You may apply to additional roles 90 days after your last application.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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