Department: AISEC - Applied and Integrated Security
Duties: Chip designs of new, open architectures based on the RISC-V instruction set facilitate to adapt and harden processors for embedded systems; Implementation of hardware and firmware for FPGAs and microcontrollers; Design of analog circuits, systems and algorithms for Physical Unclonable Functions, tamper detection and hardware fingerprinting; Side-channel and fault analyses in the hardware security lab; You will have various opportunities to publish your scentific results, and the possibility of working towards a doctorate
Requirements: A scientific degree (Master or equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, IT Security, Computer Science, or a related subject; New ideas that you actively contribute within the framework of industry and research projects, and ability for independent and goal-oriented work style; Interest in information security as well as research and implementation of secure embedded systems; Background in at least one of the following domains: hardware design, digital design, analog design, hardware software co-design, FPGA design, electronic measurements, circuit design, communications engineering; Background in current instruction sets and architectures of embedded processors (in particular RISC-V) preferred; Experience in IT security or cryptography (professional or private) is a plus