System on a Chip Architect

Position: SOC Architect, Hardware Security

Location: Austin TX – hybrid onsite 3 days a week

Salary: Around $190k and 15% annual bonus

Duration: PERM

Start Date: ASAP

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:

• Degree 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)

• Willing to travel internationally