Cybersecurity Analyst — Semiconductor IP OR Hardware Security Analyst
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst in Bengaluru, India, to lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and hardware security. This full-time role involves integrating security into the development lifecycle, advising product teams, and authoring customer-facing guidance. Proficiency in Python, AI agents, and tools like Jira and GitLab is required.
Responsibilities
- Lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and associated firmware, recommending controls.
- Run security analysis throughout 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 product teams in agile sprints.
- Use Python to automate analysis and produce repeatable 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 on real products.
- Ability to identify assets, attackers, attack surfaces, and attack paths, and map each to a mitigation.
- Comfort working without a single known end-system; analysis must cover representative integration scenarios.
- Experience applying a cybersecurity lifecycle across planning, requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release.
- Ability to turn 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 threats 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 with designers and verification leads.
- Ability to judge whether a claimed cybersecurity control is implemented in the design and is verifiable.
- 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; scripts should be readable and usable by other analysts.
- Practical experience using AI agents and agentic workflows to speed research, drafting, and repetitive analysis, while maintaining human ownership of technical conclusions.
- Hands-on use of Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab (or an equivalent Git forge) for tickets, documentation, and review.
- Clear written and spoken English; ability to lead technical sessions with geographically distributed teams.
Desired Qualifications
- An advanced degree is welcome, not required.
- Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 or a comparable product-cybersecurity standard is helpful.
- Analog or mixed-signal background is helpful.
- Semiconductor IP product experience is helpful.
- Experience with vulnerability handling is helpful.
- Experience with applied embedded cryptography is helpful.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans.
- ETO and FTO Programs in addition to company holidays.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 15% discount and 24-month look-back.
- Retirement plans (vary by region and country).
- Competitive salaries.
- Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies like AI/ML and GenAI.
- Collaborative work environment across different disciplines and locations.
Skills
PythonAIGenAICloudJiraConfluenceGitGitLabRTLVerilogSystemVerilogVHDL
#cybersecurity#semiconductor#hardware security#IP integration#EDA
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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