Staff Security Engineer

Job description

Please Note: 1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account) 2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply. Job Description: The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) products and services are trusted by various organizations for their mission critical systems. Many of these systems demand the highest confidentiality and are of extreme interest to nation state actors. The SCOPE team within the VCF Division at Broadcom is responsible for defending these products, services and their supply chains. If helping find and fix security holes in these systems is your idea of a fun career, then you should come join this team. Working alongside other highly motivated and capable security engineers you will get first-hand experience in modern threats, attack, and defense techniques. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? Security Engineers on the team are responsible for triage, investigation, management and communication of security vulnerabilities reported by external researchers. You will be responsible for assessing threats, analyzing externally reported vulnerabilities, supporting teams in providing vulnerability mitigations, virtual patches, workarounds and fix recommendations. You will maintain the highest quality of work while driving programs to completion, prioritizing incoming requests, contending priorities and managing high profile communications. You will work closely with a variety of teams across Broadcom to achieve our goal of protecting our customers. The role will focus on the growth and management of VCF products from a security perspective and will require involvement in the authoring of VMware Security Response Center (vSRC) communications including security advisories, blogs and knowledge base articles. The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? Oversee all aspects of the security response process from triage to remediation and communication of high profile externally reported vulnerabilities Reproduce externally reported vulnerabilities, assess for lateral impact and develop proof of concepts for those vulnerabilities Use Claude Code, or similar AI agentic coding tools, to be effective at scale Design AI agentic workflows to triage and assess incoming reports Build multi-step reasoning AI agents capable of autonomous static analysis, dynamic scanning, and automated patch generation Work with tools such as Blackduck, Burp, Nessus, and Coverity for security defect discovery. Be familiar with OSS vulnerability discovery platforms like vulnhub, GHSA, openwall, etc. Assess OSS vulnerabilities for potential impact to VCF products Proficient in Python and at least one of C/C++ or Java Monitor and develop intelligence sources to maintain situational awareness of the cyber threat landscape Work with a diverse group of stakeholders from technical to executive level Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of related experience or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of related experience Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law. If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.