Cybersecurity Analyst — Semiconductor IP OR Hardware Security Analyst
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · Software Engineering
In short
As a Cybersecurity Analyst in Bengaluru, India, you will lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and firmware, integrating security into the development lifecycle. You will advise product teams, author customer guidance, review RTL, and support in-field activities, leveraging Python and AI agents for analysis and automation. This full-time role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and typically 4+ years in product cybersecurity or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and associated firmware, identifying assets, threats, and attack paths.
- Run security analysis across the cybersecurity lifecycle: planning, design, implementation, verification, and release.
- Advise product teams on cybersecurity requirements, architecture, and verification.
- Author customer-facing security integration guidance.
- Review RTL, architecture, and verification intent against secure-design principles.
- Support in-field cybersecurity activities, including vulnerability assessment and incident analysis.
- Facilitate working sessions with cybersecurity architects and design/verification leads.
- Deliver analysis incrementally with agile product teams.
- Use Python to automate analysis, transform data, and produce reports.
- Utilize agentic workflows (AI agents, structured prompts, human-in-the-loop review) to speed research and routine tasks.
- Manage work in Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab for tracking, documentation, and version control.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically, 4 or more years in product cybersecurity, embedded security, digital design, digital verification, or a closely related engineering role.
- Practical experience performing threat modeling or threat analysis and risk assessment.
- Ability to identify assets, attackers, attack surfaces, and attack paths, and map them to mitigations.
- Comfort analyzing without a single known end-system, covering representative integration scenarios and stating assumptions.
- Experience applying a cybersecurity lifecycle across planning, requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release.
- Ability to translate threat analysis results into requirements, design guidance, verification objectives, and release evidence.
- Hands-on understanding of embedded systems (SoC or MCU integration, firmware, hardware/software interfaces, memory-mapped registers, boot and debug, on-chip interconnects).
- Ability to reason about hardware-rooted and firmware threats, and read architecture, databooks, and interface specifications.
- Hands-on proficiency as a digital designer or digital verification engineer.
- Ability to read and discuss RTL (Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL), architecture, interfaces, and register maps.
- Ability to judge implementation and verifiability of claimed cybersecurity controls.
- Experience delivering analysis or engineering work inside agile product teams, including re-scoping when product content changes.
- Ability to write and maintain Python for analysis and automation.
- Practical experience using AI agents and agentic workflows for research, drafting, and repetitive analysis.
- Hands-on use of Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab (or equivalent) for tickets, documentation, and review.
- Clear written and spoken English.
- Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 or comparable product-cybersecurity standard is helpful.
- Analog or mixed-signal background is helpful.
- Semiconductor IP product experience is helpful.
- Vulnerability handling is helpful.
- Applied embedded cryptography is helpful.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans.
- ETO and FTO Programs.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- ESPP: Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back.
- Retirement plans that vary by region and country.
- Competitive salaries.
Skills
PythonGitGitLabJiraConfluenceRTLSystemVerilogVHDLAIGenAI
#cybersecurity#semiconductor ip#hardware security#engineering#python#ai#agile
About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
3 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Bengaluru, India
Qualification
Bachelor
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