HW Security Architect

This role sits in our Chief Technology Office (CTO). The CTO Competence Center Crypto & Security is dedicated to advancing the organization’s capabilities in cryptography and security. Our mission is to foster innovation, ensure robust protection of digital assets, and support the secure development of products and solutions across all business units.

We strive to:
• Promote excellence in cryptographic research and implementation.
• Enable secure and compliant product development through expert guidance.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to address emerging security challenges.
• Drive awareness and adoption of best practices in cybersecurity throughout the organization.


Primary Responsibilities:

• Specification of innovative and disruptive security solutions
• Security requirements management and definition, linking security mechanisms to functional requirements
• Specification, design and review of security architectures
• Detailed attack modeling and definition of security mechanisms in hardware, firmware, protocols, etc.
• Advising and training the teams on design, implementation and test of hardware/software security mechanisms
• Detailed implementation reviews (RTL, firmware code)
• Planning, coordination and execution of pre-silicon vulnerability analysis (VA)
• Technical interface to customers and to the different business and product development teams
• Certification support and technical interface with evaluators and certifiers
• Root cause analysis of security defects and vulnerabilities

Qualifications:
• Master/PhD in Cryptography, Security, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 10 years industry experience in the design and development of Embedded Secure Systems.
• Strong knowledge of SoCs and/or Secure Element products
• Security background, ideally experience in embedded security
• Familiar with “state of the art” CAD tools (e.g. Cadence, ...)
• Knowledge of Hardware description languages (System Verilog, VHDL)
• Able to work independently
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Willing to travel internationally