Information System Security Engineer

Job Title : Systems Security Engineer

Location : London

Duration : 12 Months

Mode : Remote

Coding Language Required: 5+ years of experience in systems security, specifically finding and mitigating vulnerabilities at the intersection of hardware and software (e.g., Kernel, Hypervisor, Firmware).

Main responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of speculative execution and microarchitectural security.
• Hands-on research experience (PhD-level research counts as relevant experience).
• Experience discovering new microarchitectural attacks.
• Acknowledgement from CPU vendors for responsibly disclosing hardware vulnerabilities.
• Publications in reputable security venues.
• Lead uArch vulnerability responses as part of a rotation and with the support of a cross-functional team.
• Drive key responses to microarchitectural vulnerabilities by assessing their impact at Google’s scale and coordinating remediation with internal teams and external vendors.
• Research and develop long-term systematic mitigation, such as robust isolation primitives, to ensure that hardware vulnerabilities never pose a significant risk to the world again.
• Partner with internal product teams to design applications that are architecturally resilient to modern hardware threats from day one.
• Collaborate deeply with hardware vendors and research institutions to share knowledge, triage impacts, and inform the design of a secure future.
• Software Engineering (Temp)

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