Hybrid Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Identify Vulnerabilities: Discover security flaws before they can be exploited, using offensive security techniques across the full software and firmware stack.
  • Threat Modeling: Development of comprehensive threat models covering all targeted usages and deployments of Open chip SW Stack.
  • Security Documentation: create and maintain high-quality security guidance documentation, including best practices, design recommendations, and threat mitigation strategies.
  • Security Standards Compliance: Drive the alignment of OpenChip products with industry-recognized security standards (e.g., FIPS 140-3, NIST SP 800-193, ISO/IEC 27001).
  • Advanced Security Research, Conduct deep technical investigations in areas such as:
  • - Microarchitectural security (e.g., side-channel attacks)
  • - Cryptographic weaknesses
  • - Fuzzing and reverse engineering
  • - Code and architecture-level security reviews
  • - Logic and memory vulnerabilities (e.g., kernel/firmware privilege escalation)
  • Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics.
  • Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,...
  • Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations...).
  • Work with validation teams on required test cases, coverage, and methodologies to ensure robust security verification.
  • Work with support Quality team by delivering security guidelines and best practices for implementing a secure development lifecycle (SDL).
  • Work with hardware teams, providing requirements for security and influencing hardware/software co-design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor or Master's degree in a relevant field
  • Experience in the relevant field (5-10yr)
  • Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira)
  • Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache and memory hierarchy, buses,...)
  • Knowledge about at least two of the following areas:
  • - Microarchitectural security(side channel attacks, fault injection)
  • - Platform security features (kernel/firmware hardening, CHERI, CFI, pointer tagging, virtualization-based security, IOMMU)
  • - Cryptograpy usage across networks (certificates, signatures, TLS/SSL, PK, remote attestation)
  • - Boot integrity technologies (UEFI Secure Boot, measured boot, TPM)
  • - Cryptography, including experience with cryptography libraries (OpenSSL, libssl, wolfssl, mbedtls, libsodium)

Benefits

  • A collaborative, innovation-driven environment with significant autonomy and ownership
  • Hybrid work model with flexible scheduling

Job title

Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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