Cybersecurity Analyst — Semiconductor IP OR Hardware Security Analyst
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · Embedded Systems · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys seeks a Cybersecurity Analyst in Bengaluru for semiconductor IP and hardware security. You will lead threat analysis, integrate security into the development lifecycle, and author customer guidance. Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 4+ years in product cybersecurity, and proficiency in Python and security tools.
Responsibilities
- Lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and associated firmware.
- Run security analysis as part of the cybersecurity lifecycle.
- 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 and verification leads.
- Deliver analysis incrementally with product teams working in agile sprints.
- Use Python to automate analysis, transform inventories and threat-model data, and produce repeatable reports.
- Use agentic workflows (AI agents, structured prompts, and human-in-the-loop review) to speed research, first drafts, consistency checks, and routine tasks.
- Run the job in Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab: track analysis and incident work, keep project documentation current, and version work products through merge requests and review.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a 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 to map each path to a mitigation.
- Comfort working without a single known end-system.
- 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, and on-chip interconnects.
- Ability to reason about hardware-rooted threats and firmware threats, and to read architecture, databooks, and interface specifications.
- Hands-on proficiency as a digital designer or a 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 whether it 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.
- Practical experience using AI agents and agentic workflows to speed research, drafting, and repetitive analysis.
- Hands-on use of Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab (or an equivalent Git forge) for tickets, documentation, and review.
- Clear written and spoken English; able 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.
- Vulnerability handling is helpful.
- Applied embedded cryptography is helpful.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans that work for you and your family.
- In addition to company holidays, we have ETO and FTO Programs.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and more.
- Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back.
- Save for your future with our retirement plans that vary by region and country.
- Competitive salaries.
Skills
AI/MLGenAICloudPythonJiraConfluenceGitGitLabVerilogSystemVerilogVHDL
#cybersecurity#hardware security#semiconductor ip#threat analysis#risk assessment#embedded systems#python#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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