System Security Research Engineer – OS and Device Protection

PhD / Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer/Electrical Engineering or related fields, with a research mindset and 3+ years of industry-relevant R&D experience is an asset.

Solid understanding of operating system internals, including memory management, process scheduling, and kernel/user separation.

Proficiency in at least one native development language: C, C++, or Rust.

Experience with low-level system programming and debugging.

Familiarity with modern threat prevention technologies (sandboxing, CFI, ASLR, DEP, etc.).

Strong grasp of memory safety concepts, including buffer overflows, use-after-free, and heap exploitation techniques.

Knowledge of hardware security features, such as: Virtualization (Hypervisors, VT-x/AMD-V) TEE (e.g., ARM TrustZone, Intel SGX); MMU, IOMMU, and Secure Boot processes

Virtualization (Hypervisors, VT-x/AMD-V)

TEE (e.g., ARM TrustZone, Intel SGX);

MMU, IOMMU, and Secure Boot processes

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