Intel plays a key role in any data-centric initiative in the world, providing technologies that enable our customers to innovate and compete, effectively changing the world. As an Offensive Security Researcher at Intel, you will lead complex, multi-disciplinary security research projects using your research expertise. The Security Research organization is a multidisciplinary team in Intel's Product Assurance and Security (IPAS) organization, focusing on offensive security research, developing new mitigation strategies and tools. The team is involved in a variety of projects of various size and scope ranging from short-term crises to long-term objectives.

You will be responsible for leading or taking an active role in complex, multidisciplinary security research projects. Commands deep pervasive pulse on Intel business and technologies and emerging threat landscape in hacker community to prioritize offensive security research focus. Ability to navigate around ambiguities and obstacles to independently solve complex problems. Demonstrated expertise in vulnerability discovery, analysis and exploitation. Explores and invents software and hardware techniques as a method of attack against compute targets. Develops proof of concepts to characterize exploitability and impacts. Recommends systemic mitigations and demonstrates their robustness across a diverse portfolio of products. Leads automation pathfinding to improve security assurance capabilities of product teams. Shares expert insights and new learning and contributes intellectual property to internal and external communities. Requires knowledge of computer architecture, SoC development, CPU design, SoC layout, chipset functionality, FW and HW security, crypto, and other x86 compute paradigms. Demonstrates effective communication with executives and productive collaboration with peer researchers.

Qualifications

PhD Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline and experience in the following:
- proven experience with hardware architecture, design and implementation. Knowledge in developing threat models based on architectural definition
- proven experience in HW/SW Security fields. Relevant security technologies such as cryptography, secure protocols, secure boots, and deep knowledge of security vulnerabilities and attack profiles are required.
- Research focus on memory technologies and Row-hammer techniques and countermeasures.
- Practitioner of fuzzing tools and methods
- HW design using VHDL/System Verilog. Experience with SW and/or HW testing and tools, low level debug
- Experienced conducting security code reviews

Inside this Business Group

Enable amazing computing experiences with Intel Software continues to shape the way people think about computing – across CPU, GPU, and FPGA architectures. Get your hands on new technology and collaborate with some of the smartest people in the business. Our developers and software engineers work in all software layers, across multiple operating systems and platforms to enable cutting-edge solutions. Ready to solve some of the most complex software challenges? Explore an impactful and innovative career in Software.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.