1 day ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Assess the impact of microarchitectural vulnerabilities at Google’s scale and coordinate remediation with internal teams and external vendors.
- Contribute to architectural reviews and improvements for Confidential CPU, GPU, and TPU environments.
- Research and develop systematic mitigations, including robust isolation primitives, for hardware vulnerabilities.
- Partner with product teams to design applications resilient to modern hardware threats.
- Collaborate with hardware vendors and research institutions to share knowledge, triage impacts, and inform secure system design.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 2 years of experience with offensive security research focused on practical, real-world attacks.
- Experience finding and mitigating systems-security vulnerabilities at the intersection of hardware and software, such as in kernels, hypervisors, or firmware.
- Preferred: experience building or using tools to discover, analyze, or reproduce hardware-level vulnerabilities.
- Preferred: understanding of confidential computing technologies, trusted execution environments, speculative execution, and side-channels.
- Preferred: experience with vulnerability response, complex architectural reviews, public security research, conference presentations, open-source security projects, or technical security-risk analysis.
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About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.