Security and Access control - Lead/Staff Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering
General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards. Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.Job Overview
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 plusSuccessful 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
6 to 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

languagesC/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:

RequiredBachelor degree and above, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering

Experience Requirements:

Bachelors/ Masters with 5-7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience

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