Sr Staff Engineer - Security and Access Control

Work with Qualcomm's security architecture / IP and access control team on next generation SOC for smartphone, tablet, automotive and IOT product categories. is responsible for assisting product development teams throughout the company to apply secure HW design principles to individual blocks, computing cores, and at the SoC level. SW/HW co-design, HW development experience. Familiarity with debug architectures such as JTAG and ARM coresight are a plus

Successful candidates will be able to engage with product teams independently with minimal supervision to detect and mitigate security vulnerabilities in hardware architecture and implementations, involve in access control issues at both SW and HW.     

Minimum Qualifications 

12+ years of industry or academic experience in Security are required.

Additionally, applicants must have expertise in two or more of the following areas:

• Computer architecture and hardware based or assisted access control and security

• Mobile platform security, Secure Boot, Secure Storage, Access Control, Secure Debug, DDR protection

• ARM TrustZone, Virtualization

• Operating system security and hypervisor security

• languages: C/C++, Python, RTL

• Teamwork across various teams and geolocations.

• Able to communicate in English, both verbal and written.

Preferred Qualifications 

The following skills/experience will be considered a plus:

• ARM architecture SoC security design

• Applied Cryptography Trusted Computing

• Working Knowledge on hardware firewalls for access control

• Knowledge on AI/ML is added advantage

• SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, SystemC - FPGA/ASIC design is a plus

• Side channel attacks, power analysis and timing attacks on crypto elements is a plus

• Memory technology (DDR4, DDR5), storage technologies is (eMMC, UFS) is a plus

Educational Requirements:

• Required: Bachelor degree and above, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/ Masters with 5-7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience