Cryptography Expert

Job Description

IDEMIA Secure Transactions, a division of IDEMIA Group, is the leading technology provider making it safer and easier to pay and connect. With unmatched expertise in cryptography and credential issuance, IST is trusted by over 2,000 financial institutions, mobile operators, automotive manufacturers, and IoT providers worldwide. Every day, IST secures billions of essential transactions, ensuring the highest levels of data protection and convenience.

Purpose

In our Digital, Integration and Verification design team, as Cryptography expert you will lead the improvement of the hardware security of our chip in collaboration with our software team (based in Paris and Pessac) to be deployed for all our products.

Key Missions

• Work in advance on the improvement of the security of our chips starting from the feedback from certification labs
• Integrating/verifying security improvements (PKI, KECCAK, AES, TDES, attack countermeasures, etc…)
• Understanding and follow the evolutions of the attacks
• Understanding standards and system level constraints (Performances, Power consumption, Security)
• Supporting product validation and security certification and debug activities in collaboration with the Software, Quality and Test Engineering, attack teams
• Contributing to the Technology and Design Methodology improvements.
• Within a quality process with all teams: reviewing the Verification, the Validation, the Characterization and the Qualification results.

Profile Description

• Knowledge in Cryptography and post-Quantum Cryptography (AES, TDES, PKI, RNG…)
• Knowledge in certification (CC, FIPs, EMVCo, etc…)
• Master’s Degree in electronic engineering or equivalent degree with specific knowledge of microelectronic devices and related digital circuit design
• At least 8 years of experience in the development of complex digital blocks or SoC embedding a microcontroller and cryptography
• Knowledge of hardware description language (Verilog, System Verilog, VHDL)
• Knowledge of the Digital design basic tools: RTL simulation, Logical synthesis, Static Timing Analysis, Equivalence Checking (Synopsys and CADENCE tools)
• Knowledge of basic communication standards such as ISO7816, ISO14443
• Fluent in English.

We Offer

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