Hardware-backed phishing-resistant authentication keys and passkey technology
Yubico designs and manufactures YubiKey hardware authenticators, with a stack spanning embedded tooling (Altium Designer, Cadence, Allegro, NXP, NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy) alongside Salesforce and NetSuite on the business side. Hiring tilts toward sales and manager-level roles, matching job-post themes of partner activation, priority-market expansion and a YubiKey-as-a-service model, while engineering work targets post-quantum cryptography and manufacturing scale.
Notable leadership hires: Account Director
Yubico is a Stockholm-headquartered public cybersecurity company founded in 2007, with additional hubs in Santa Clara and Singapore. It builds the YubiKey, a hardware security key that provides phishing-resistant, passwordless login and works with a wide range of apps and services. The company helped develop the FIDO2, WebAuthn and FIDO U2F standards and sells to enterprises, governments and institutions across more than 160 countries. It employs 501–1,000 people and is currently hiring in Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Yubico uses C++, Python and Assembly for firmware, Altium Designer, Cadence and Allegro for hardware design, NXP and Freescale chips, NFC and Bluetooth Low Energy, plus AWS, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce and NetSuite.
Yes. Sales is Yubico's largest hiring area, weighted toward manager-level roles including an Account Director, with openings in Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Job posts point to a YubiKey-as-a-service platform, a partner enablement program, moving hardware prototypes into mass production, a developer program and a post-quantum cryptography transition.
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