Security Researcher

Job Details:

Job Description: 

• Responsible for secure design, development and operation of Intel's hardware and software products and services.
• Responsibilities may include threat assessments, design of security components, and vulnerability assessment.
• Ensures products conform to standards and specifications. Develops plans and cost estimates and assesses projects to analyze risks.
• Responds to customer/client requests or events as they occur. Develops solutions to problems utilizing formal education, judgment and formal processes.
• Maintains substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art security principles, theories, attacks and contributes to literature and conferences. May participate in development of intellectual property.
• Requires thorough knowledge of security practices, procedures and capabilities in order to perform nonrepetitive, analytical work.

Qualifications:

• Applicants should ideally possess 10 years of experience in the field of system security. research and excel in exploring software and hardware techniques as a method of attack against targets within computing systems.
• Ability to work autonomously in a less structured startup type environment with minimal supervision is a must.
• Ability to lead a team of security researchers is also a requirement.
• Ability to span security expertise over HW, SW and Firmware domains.
• Passion for understanding latest attacks in the industry and applying to Client platforms where applicable.
• Applicants should have In-depth expertise and experience in four or more of the following areas, including security threats, vulnerability research and security development lifecycle practices:
• Knowledge of computer architecture, CPU, SoC, chipsets, BIOS, Firmware, Drivers, and others
• Security analysis and vulnerability assessment
• Reverse engineering skills
• Exploitation and mitigation technique developments
• Security testing techniques including fuzzing and pen-testing
• Paper publication, participation in bug bounty programs, recognitions from products and brands will be highly considered.
• Expertise in strategizing advanced product security counter measures is valuable.
• Security Research and industry test tools and standards like Kali Linux, Defensics, Hydra, BurpSuite, Metasploit, OWASP
  Additional qualifications - good to have one or more:
• Knowledge of security technologies: authentication, cryptography, security protocols
• Strong network in security community, ethical hackers, academia,
  CISSP and other security certifications
• Demonstrable knowledgeable in one or more OS internals - Linux, Windows, macOS, mobile OS etc
• Knowledgeable in one or more programming languages including low level assembly, C, Java, Python etc.
• Detail oriented and ability to compare and contrast features across multiple processor architectures and low level micro architectural blocks.
• Knowledgeable in networking basics
• Knowledge in Side Channel Analysis, Timing attacks, glitch attacks etc
• White papers, Academic references or industry accolades for demonstrated expertise, discovered vulnerabilities
• Specialization in one or more security domains
• Having worked on security test tooling and methodologies

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (India)

Primary Location: 

India, Bangalore

Additional Locations:

Business group:

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.