Senior Hardware Security Architect: Embedded & Anti-Tamper

Antwerp Space

Antwerpen

Sur place

EUR 90 000 - 130 000

Plein temps

14 jours+

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Avantages offerts par ce poste

Multicultural environment

Professional development

Competitive salary package

Résumé du poste

Antwerp Space is seeking a Security Architect specialized in hardware and embedded security to design and secure advanced electronic systems in Belgium. The role reports to the System Engineering team lead and collaborates with multiple engineering disciplines to embed security from the earliest design stages through validation and accreditation.

You will work on secure boot, roots of trust, anti-tamper measures, and risk assessments, requiring 5+ years in hardware security and willingness to

Qualifications

Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in hardware or embedded system security engineering.
Demonstrated experience with hardware security mechanisms such as secure boot, cryptographic key storage, hardware roots of trust, or trusted execution environments.
Experience performing security architecture analysis or threat modelling for embedded or hardware systems.
Understanding of anti-tamper and hardware attack mitigation techniques.
Experience contributing to security assurance, certification, or accreditation activities.
Strong understanding of hardware security architectures, including roots of trust, secure elements, hardware security modules (HSM), and trusted execution environments.
Experience with anti-tamper and tamper-resistant design techniques.
Knowledge of hardware attack vectors, including side‑channel attacks, fault injection, reverse engineering, hardware probing and debugging attacks.
Understanding secure boot mechanisms, key management, and secure device identity.
Familiarity with TEMPEST / EMSEC considerations.
Experience performing security threat analysis and risk assessments for embedded or hardware systems.
Familiarity with ASIC design is a benefit.
Understanding of system partitioning and security isolation mechanisms.
Experience working with hardware/software co‑design in secure systems.
Familiarity with security certification or accreditation frameworks (e.g., Common Criteria, SESIP, FIPS 140‑3, or equivalent).
Experience working in high‑assurance environments such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, or semiconductor systems.
Willingness to travel.

Responsabilités

Contribute to the design, security analysis, and accreditation of hardware security architectures, including secure processing elements, root-of-trust components, and anti-tamper protections.
Work at the system level, identifying security requirements and translating them into concrete architectural solutions and ensuring that hardware implementations meet the required security assurance levels.
Collaborate closely with system architects, hardware designers, software teams, and security authorities to ensure that security is built into the system architecture from the earliest design stages through validation and accreditation.