Principal Engineer / Technical Team Lead, Hardware Security Platform

About the Position

Principal Engineer / Technical Team Lead, Hardware Security Platform

Luxoft is seeking a seasoned Principal Engineer / Technical Team Lead to spearhead our hardware-assisted security platform in Gdańsk, Poland. This role involves leading the technical direction of a cutting-edge platform that leverages silicon-level Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs) and machine learning to detect advanced endpoint threats on a Windows 11 platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the hardware-assisted threat-detection platform.
• Define the technical strategy, architectural boundaries, interfaces, and integration model.
• Lead cross-functional architectural decisions involving processor telemetry, Windows systems software, machine learning, security validation, and partner integration.
• Establish and maintain technical quality standards, architecture principles, design-review practices, and engineering acceptance criteria.
• Define measurable efficacy and performance objectives, including detection quality, false-positive behavior, inference latency, system overhead, reliability, and API compatibility.
• Lead technical evaluation of trade-offs between model quality, telemetry coverage, runtime performance, implementation complexity, and system resource consumption.
• Own the technical strategy for the partner-facing SDK/API, including interface stability, versioning, compatibility, diagnostics, and integration guidance.
• Coordinate the technical relationship with approved security-software integration partners.
• Lead end-to-end validation gates across representative workloads, threat categories, system configurations, and hardware platforms.
• Ensure that technical decisions, interfaces, assumptions, risks, and known limitations are documented and traceable.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate program-level technical risks and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance and design support when complex issues span hardware, drivers, systems software, ML, and security.
• Mentor senior engineers across the Lab, ML, and Real-Time workstreams and help them resolve cross-disciplinary technical problems.
• Represent the platform in client architecture reviews, partner discussions, and approved external technical engagements.
• Work with project stakeholders to translate technical progress, constraints, and risks into clear decisions and priorities.
• Support the transition from Proof of Concept toward a scalable productization architecture if the initial phase is successful.

Requirements

• Must have:

  • 8+ years of progressive software, systems, platform, hardware, security, or machine-learning engineering experience.
  • Substantial experience operating as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, Systems Architect, or equivalent technical authority.
  • Demonstrated hands-on technical depth in at least one of the following areas, with credible experience in at least one additional area:
    • CPU and platform engineering: CPU microarchitecture, processor telemetry, PMCs/PMUs, performance profiling, platform firmware, UEFI/BIOS, silicon validation, or comparable low-level platform technologies.
    • Windows systems and kernel engineering: Windows kernel-mode drivers, WDF/WDM/KMDF, driver-to-user-space communication, WinDbg, ETW/ETL, concurrency, low-latency systems, or performance-sensitive runtime development.
    • Endpoint security: Endpoint-security or EDR architecture, system monitoring, behavioral detection, malware analysis, threat telemetry, security-agent development, or comparable defensive-security platforms.
    • ML systems: Production ML inference pipelines, model-runtime integration, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, GPU/NPU inference, edge inference, or performance optimization for deployed ML models.
  • Working literacy across the remaining technical areas and the ability to lead specialists without claiming equal hands-on depth in every discipline.
  • Experience making and documenting architecture decisions across multiple components, engineering disciplines, or organizational boundaries.
  • Experience leading a complex multi-disciplinary engineering effort from definition and prototype through integration and validation.
  • Experience defining measurable technical KPIs, performance budgets, quality gates, acceptance criteria, or engineering readiness criteria.
  • Ability to evaluate system-level trade-offs involving performance, reliability, security, compatibility, maintainability, and delivery risk.
  • Strong technical communication skills across engineering, partner, project-management, and executive audiences.
  • Ability to mentor senior engineers, facilitate design reviews, resolve technical disagreements, and drive decisions to closure.
  • Ability to remain hands-on in architecture reviews, debugging, prototyping, performance analysis, or other technically complex work.
  • Must be based in Gdańsk or willing to relocate to the Gdańsk area.
  • University degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or an equivalent field.

• Nice to have:

  • Experience with hardware-assisted security technologies on a major processor architecture.
  • Experience architecting endpoint-security, EDR, anti-malware, behavioral-detection, or system-monitoring products.
  • Familiarity with hardware performance counters, processor telemetry, instruction-based sampling, or silicon-level performance analysis.
  • Experience with Windows driver development, driver signing, HLK testing, or WHQL certification processes.
  • Experience integrating machine-learning inference into low-level, performance-sensitive, edge, endpoint, or embedded systems.
  • Experience with ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, DirectML, GPU/NPU runtimes, model quantization, or inference-performance optimization.
  • Experience developing SDKs or APIs for external engineering partners, including interface versioning and backward compatibility.
  • Experience working with security-software vendors or managing joint technical integration programs.
  • Experience with malware research, threat intelligence, safe sample handling, controlled security validation, or security-lab governance.
  • Experience with silicon validation, firmware, UEFI/BIOS, hardware attestation, trusted execution, secure boot, or platform-rooted security.
  • Experience defining detection-efficacy metrics, false-positive targets, performance budgets, or end-to-end validation gates.
  • Experience moving an early-stage R&D or Proof-of-Concept system toward production architecture.
  • Patent portfolio, technical publications, open-source contributions, conference presentations, or standards participation in a relevant technical area.

We Offer

• Relocation options
• Experience in an international environment
• Cross-cultural experience
• Feedback culture
• Regular appraisals
• Annual holiday - 20 or 26 days
• Occasional leave - 1 or 2 days
• Child care leave - 2 days or 16 hours per year
• Absence due to force majeure - 2 days or 16 hours per year
• Maternity Leave - 20 weeks
• Parental Leave - 41 weeks
• Paternity Leave - 14 days
• Expert-led tech courses
• Internal instructor-led soft skills courses
• Comprehensive in-house self-learning resources
• Access to external self-learning libraries
• Cloud Programs
• Custom Learning Programs
• Leadership Programs for Managers
• Multisport card
• LuxGood Program
• One Team Program
• Preferential banking offer
• Preferential car leasing offer
• Cafeteria program discounts
• Luxoft Social Benefit Fund
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• Full dental support
• Travel Insurance
• Life insurance at the corporate rate
• Reimbursement for corrective glasses
• Fun social activities
• Online entertainment events
• Respectful multicultural workplace
• Rotation between projects and accounts
• New career opportunities

About the Company

Luxoft is a global technology services company that specializes in software development, digital transformation, and engineering services. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions to our clients and providing a dynamic and inclusive work environment for our employees.