Embedded Hardware Security Engineer RF Secure Architecture

Sine-Engineering; Tampere; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch Benefit

Sport & Culture

Wellbeing Allowance

Extended Occupational Healthcare

Accident Insurance

Business Travel Insurance

Snacks & Office Comforts

Job summary

Sine Engineering in Tampere, on-site, is seeking a Hardware Security Engineer to own the security posture of our embedded hardware and firmware products, from threat modeling to secure architecture patterns and secure development practices.

You will work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with design teams, and help build a robust security culture across EVT/DVT stages while mentoring R&D engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hardware security, embedded security, or product security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with JTAG/UART/SWD exploitation, fault injection, and side-channel analysis.
• Firmware extraction and reverse engineering (Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binwalk, or equivalent).
• Practical knowledge of AES, ECC, secure key storage, TLS/DTLS applied to resource-constrained embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Hardware Security Assessment: perform hands-on security testing of devices including JTAG/UART/SWD exploitation, firmware extraction, fault injection, and side-channel analysis.
• Identify attack surfaces across RF interfaces, debug ports, physical access vectors, supply chain, etc.
• Threat modeling (STRIDE or equivalent) at the start of each product cycle and produce risk-rated findings with remediation steps.
• Define hardware security architecture for new products: secure boot, hardware root of trust, encrypted storage, key management.
• Assess wireless interfaces against jamming, spoofing, replay, and protocol-level attacks; define encryption and authentication requirements for datalink and SDR-based systems.
• Integrate security checkpoints into EVT, DVT, and PVT gates; conduct security-focused code and design reviews; train RnD engineers on hardware security fundamentals.

Skills

Hardware security

JTAG/UART/SWD exploitation

Firmware extraction

Reverse engineering

AES, ECC, TLS/DTLS

Tools

Ghidra

IDA Pro

Binwalk

Job description

Sine Engineering in Tampere, on-site, is seeking a Hardware Security Engineer to own the security posture of our embedded hardware and firmware products, from threat modeling to secure architecture patterns and secure development practices.

You will work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with design teams, and help build a robust security culture across EVT/DVT stages while mentoring R&D engineers.