Temasek Laboratories is looking for a candidate to join them as a Research Scientist. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop and refine in demand skills in the field of hardware forensics with focus on vulnerability assessment in commercial and industrial devices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and procure relevant targets and devices for research targets in project scope
• Device preparation and test bed setup (PCB analysis, hardware and software)
• Investigation of secure boot process
• Sample preparation, devices / test board setup, side-channel and fault-injection techniques to assess the vulnerabilities in firmware security
• Development of software and hardware for non-invasive and semi-invasive analysis of semiconductor devices (e.g. FPGA, microcontrollers)
• Conduct chip analysis via failure analysis techniques for hardware security purpose

Job Requirements:

• PhD degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related disciplines, with interest in research and development. Master's with extended work experience can also be considered
• Prior experience in working with microelectronics and FPGA devices. Coding background in either of C/Java/Assembly/Python/VHDL for analysis is required
• Knowledge in developing prototypes, FPGA design, manipulating oscilloscopes, writing device drivers and communication interfaces, which are used in analysis of implemented designs
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Problem solving, research and analytical skills
• Team player

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU