Manager, Product Cybersecurity — Semiconductor IP
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cybersecurity · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys is seeking a Manager, Product Cybersecurity to lead a team of analysts supporting semiconductor IP products. This role involves setting direction for threat analysis, guiding security analysis throughout the product lifecycle, and coaching the team. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in product cybersecurity or a related field, including leadership experience, and proficiency with tools like Python, Jira, and Git.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of cybersecurity analysts supporting semiconductor IP products, setting priorities and balancing workload.
- Set the direction for threat analysis of semiconductor IP and associated firmware.
- Guide the team in running security analysis throughout the cybersecurity lifecycle.
- Review the team’s analysis, requirements, and integration guidance for quality.
- Advise product leaders and architects on cybersecurity requirements, architecture, and verification.
- Oversee customer-facing security integration guidance.
- Guide the team’s support for in-field cybersecurity activities.
- Coach and develop analysts, setting clear goals and planning career growth.
- Facilitate working sessions with cybersecurity architects and design/verification leads.
- Plan the team’s work with product teams in agile sprints.
- Promote the use of Python and agentic workflows for faster analysis.
- Manage team work in Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ten or more years in product cybersecurity, embedded security, digital design, digital verification, or a closely related engineering role.
- Four or more years leading people or technical teams.
- Experience managing or leading analysts or engineers: setting priorities, giving feedback, coaching, hiring, and growing people.
- Practical experience performing or reviewing threat modeling, threat analysis, and risk assessment.
- Ability to judge whether threat-analysis work identifies assets, attackers, attack surfaces, and attack paths, and maps 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.
- Background as a digital designer or a digital verification engineer, with the ability to read and discuss RTL (Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL), architecture, interfaces, and register maps.
- Ability to judge whether a claimed cybersecurity control is implemented in the design and whether it is verifiable.
- Experience delivering work inside agile product teams.
- Working ability to read and review Python used for analysis and automation.
- Practical experience using AI agents and agentic workflows.
- Hands-on use of Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab (or an equivalent Git forge).
- Clear written and spoken English.
Desired Qualifications
- An advanced degree is welcome, not required.
- Familiarity with digital design and verification languages and methods, such as SystemVerilog, UVM (Universal Verification Methodology), and SystemC.
- 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.
- ETO and FTO Programs.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- Purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount, with a 24 month look-back.
- Retirement Plans.
- Competitive salaries.
Skills
PythonJiraConfluenceGitGitLabSystemVerilogUVMSystemC
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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
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Bengaluru, India
Qualification
Bachelor
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