HARDWARE SECURITY ENGINEER

at  Zync Group

I am hiring a Hardware Security Engineer on behalf of one of Europe’s leading research organizations addressing critical challenges in areas such as applied science, medicine and digitalization. Through open innovation and global collaboration, it drives impactful solutions across sectors. They do cutting edge work focusing on IoT, AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, and crisis management, enhancing digital resilience. With work in cyber threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and cryptography, they fortify critical IT infrastructures, ensuring a safer, more reliable digital landscape. They

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Developing innovative chip architectures inspired by open standards, focusing on processors that can be customized and strengthened for use in embedded systems.
• Creating hardware and firmware solutions tailored for FPGA and microcontroller applications.
• Designing specialized analog circuits, systems, and techniques that enable unique hardware identifiers, tamper-resistance, and secure authentication.
• Conducting hardware security assessments involving side-channel and fault testing in a dedicated lab environment.

Essential:

• Relevant Master’s degree
• 2+ years hardware/digital design experience
• 2+ years security engineering experience e.g. vulnerability engineering
• Deep knowledge of embedded processors
• Passion for research
• B2 German and fluent English

Desirable:

• Experience with chip designing - Tapeout
• Cryptography

Benefits:

• Support with further education e.g. PhD
• Opportunity to publish
• Strong progression plans
• Excellent training opportunities and personal development
• Flexibility in movement between internal roles
• Work alongside an inclusive team of experts
• Opportunity to shape the work you do

• Developing innovative chip architectures inspired by open standards, focusing on processors that can be customized and strengthened for use in embedded systems.
• Creating hardware and firmware solutions tailored for FPGA and microcontroller applications.
• Designing specialized analog circuits, systems, and techniques that enable unique hardware identifiers, tamper-resistance, and secure authentication.
• Conducting hardware security assessments involving side-channel and fault testing in a dedicated lab environment