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08 August 2017
University of Wollongong, Australia
Job Posting
This position will conduct research in the project of “Internet of Things and Blockchain Security”. It is expected that you will be research active in the area of cyber security, and are equipped with sufficient experience in publishing research outcomes in the top forums.
You will be prompted to respond to the selection criteria as part of the online application process, based on the position description available at the link below. You will be able to save your application at any time and submit at a later date if required, you will only be able to do this before the closing date of the position.
For further information about this position, please contact Head of School and the Director of Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, Professor Willy Susilo on +61 2 4221 5535 or wsusilo at uow dot edu dot au
Closing date for applications: 14 September 2017
Contact: Professor Willy Susilo
More information: https://jobs.uow.edu.au/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=170831&tz=GMT%2B10%3A00
07 August 2017
Monash University (Faculty of Information Technology), Melbourne, Australia
Job Posting
Candidates must have good English (e.g. IELTS 6.5 with all bands at least 6.0) PLUS an excellent background in at least one of the following areas:
- Applied Cryptography
- Database
- Blockchain
Applicants please send your CV AND publication record to Joseph Liu at joseph.liu(at)monash.edu
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Joseph Liu
More information: http://users.monash.edu.au/~kailiu/
Monash University (Faculty of Information Technology), Melbourne, Australia
Job Posting
Applicants should have a PhD and strong background in applied cryptography, especially in post-quantum cryptography. Knowledge in blockchain is an advantage. Applicants with very strong background in blockchain only will also be considered.
Interested candidates should send a CV and a research statement to Joseph Liu at joseph.liu(at)monash.edu
Selection of applications will start immediately.
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Joseph Liu
06 August 2017
NXP Semiconductors
Job Posting
Please go to https://nxp.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers and browse through the various positions which you find under keyword ‘security’.
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Marc Joye, NXP Fellow
More information: https://nxp.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Job Posting
NUS currently has two research fellow positions with competitive pay and available to (fresh) PhD graduates in computer science/engineering from Singapore or overseas.
Position 1: To conduct R&D work in cloud and data security. Design and implement secure cloud computing services, including practical privacy-preserving computation (e.g. for healthcare and finance related use cases) in a cloud environment. Topics like practical partially homomorphic encryption or practical secure multi-party computation are within our key focus.
Position 2: To conduct R&D work in key management, authentication, and trusted computing, using cryptography and secure hardware (e.g. Intel SGX, TPM, PUF).
Applicants should have strong background in applied cryptography or trusted computing. Applicants are also expected to be self-motivated and good team players. To apply for any of the above positions, please send a copy of your recent CV to comxj (at) nus.edu.sg with an email subject “Application for RF”.
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: comxj (at) nus.edu.sg
More information: http://nus-singtel.nus.edu.sg
04 August 2017
Graz University of Technology
Job Posting
We are looking for a scientifically excellent candidate who will represent the field Information Security in research and teaching. The successful candidate will complement existing strengths at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) and be an engaged teacher in the Computer Science programs at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD level. Graz University of Technology offers excellent possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations within the university and with other universities.
TU Graz is committed to increase the number of female employees, especially in executive and research positions. We therefore explicitly encourage qualified women to apply. Preference is given to female applicants with equivalent qualifications until the balanced proportion between men and women is achieved. We explicitly invite qualified applicants with disabilities to apply.
Candidates should submit an application by 31 October 2017. For details, refer to https://www.tugraz.at/go/professorships-vacancies/.
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2017
Contact: Stefan Mangard, Stefan.Mangard (at) iaik.tugraz.at
More information: https://www.tugraz.at/go/professorships-vacancies/
University of Bristol
Job Posting
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Nigel Smart
More information: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=5521&nPostingTargetID=25254
CipherCloud Inc, San Jose
Job Posting
Cryptography Architect will lead and contribute to our core technology. This senior engineering position requires demonstrated capabilities in cryptography, encryption, programming, and the associated computational sciences, while also serving the role of cryptography lead for the product teams. The position also requires leading associated research and patent activities and staging of foundational cryptographic technologies for security products.
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• MS or PhD with at least few credits in advanced cryptography, mathematics and computer science combined with at least 2 years of software development experience in a related discipline is required
• In-depth hands-on implementation experience of at least few cryptography algorithms from scratch is required
• A very good understanding of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography, key management techniques, PKI, SSL, X.509 Certificates and all the related technologies is needed
• Strong theoretical bend and academic connections is a plus
• Understanding of latest cryptographic techniques such as as Homomorphic and Split Key Encryption, Function and Format preserving Encryption techniques is a big plus
• Experience with various character sets and character encoding techniques is required
• Hands-on programming experience in C or Java. Java development experience is a plus
• Entrepreneurial drive and work ethic, self-motivated, results oriented and demonstrated ability to add value and succeed in a fast paced environment.
• Team player with strong communications and writing skills.
Closing date for applications: 30 September 2017
Contact: Harshiika Upadhyay Sahu
Mananger - Recruitment
husahu (at) ciphercloud.com
More information: https://ciphercloud.com/
03 August 2017
STMicroelectonics, Rousset, France (close to Aix-en-Provence)
Job Posting
ST\"\'\"s Advanced System Technology security R&D team is looking for a crypto and security hardware engineer.
As a member of an R&D team supporting product groups throughout ST making integrated circuits for a very broad spectrum of end-applications, your mission will be to
- Deploy security expertise and help ST product divisions shape the right security solutions for their products (ICs)
- Develop hardware security IPs
- Stay on top of security needs and state-of-the-art evolution, anticipating/identifying, developing or making available the security competences, IPs or partners that will be needed by the Company 3-5 years down the road>/il>
The candidate should have
- A solid cryptography, mathematics and statistics theoretical background
- Hardware design (VHDL/Verilog, ASIC, FPGA, etc.) skills
- Teamwork, networking, customer-orientation & communication skills
- Motivation for bridging research outcomes and product design
Closing date for applications: 30 November 2017
Contact: Bernard Kasser
02 August 2017
Royal Holloway, University of London
Job Posting
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research assistant position in the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London, to work in the area of post-quantum cryptography The goal of this industry-funded two-year project is to investigate and propose novel methods and techniques for hardware implementation of popular and promising post-quantum cryptographic schemes.
The post is based at Royal Holloway’s main campus in Egham, Surrey, within commuting distance from London. The successful applicant will work with Prof Carlos Cid, Dr Martin Albrecht and other members of the ISG, in the research of efficient and secure hardware implementations of post-quantum cryptographic schemes. The researcher will consider the specific mathematical structure and features of these schemes, and will investigate the most suitable algorithmic and parameter choices for FPGA implementations. Moreover, potential trade-offs involving implementation costs, speed and scalability will be evaluated, considering for example the deployment in particular environments.
We are looking for a candidate with a PhD degree in a relevant subject and strong background and experience in FPGA implementation, ideally of cryptographic algorithms. The post will last for two years and the ideal candidate should be able to start on or near the 1st of October 2017.
Established in 1990, the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway was one of the first dedicated academic groups in the world to conduct research and teaching in information security. The ISG is today a world-leading interdisciplinary research group with 20 full-time members of staff, 10 post-doctoral research assistants and over 50 PhD students working on a range of subjects in cyber security, in particular cryptography.
Closing date for applications: 3 September 2017
Contact: Carlos Cid (carlos.cid (at) rhul.ac.uk), Martin Albrecht (martin.albrecht (at) rhul.ac.uk)
More information: https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0817-306
DarkMatter LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Posting
As a Vice President of Cryptography, you will:
- Spearhead the creation of new crypto algorithms to protect our clients, our company and our Secure Communication Suite
- Anticipate threats and client needs to develop algorithms that solve the cyber security problems of the future.
- Lead, develop and inspire a team of research scientists to consistently produce high-quality results
- Have the freedom to develop and prove crypto algorithms in-house for a cyber security leader in a dynamic region
Essential Requirements -
- PhD in Related Security field Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Information Theory and Mathematics, IT, Computer Science
- Minimum 5-8 years of experience managing cryptography teams in a university research or corporate setting
- Experience in overseeing the development of cryptographic algorithms for enterprise-grade cyber security products in mobile, cloud and web
- Ability to set clear, deliverable goals and to motivate and inspire teams to accomplish them
- Deep understanding and experience with symmetric, asymmetric and post-quantum cryptography
- Tenacity, accountability and commitment to anticipate problems and deliver new solutions
Please click on this link to apply - https://darkmatter.ae/en/careers?gh_jid=748951
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Talent Acquisition Team at DarkMatter
DarkMatter LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Posting
As a Crypto Developer, you will:
- Work closely with the secure communications team and other teams in the organization to design end-to-end secure communication protocols using state-of-the art and customized cryptographic algorithms and primitives
- Design, implement and deploy customized cryptographic algorithms covering symmetric and asymmetric key crypto, covering but not limited to: key exchange algorithms, digital signature schemes, symmetric and asymmetric block and stream ciphers, Key Generation Functions.
- Implement cryptographic protocols and parameters and their integration within DarkMatter products
- Conduct research and development in emerging areas such as quantum-based cryptography and homomorphic encryption
- Develop and update methods for efficient handling of cryptic processes
Essential Requirements:
- PhD or Master’s degree in Related Security field Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Information Theory and Mathematics, IT, Computer Science
- Five to eight years of specialized experience in the following areas: Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, End-to-end secure protocols design, PKI Management, Application Security, etc
- Extensive experience in Data Protection, Cryptography and Application Security Management
Please click on this link to apply - https://darkmatter.ae/en/careers?gh_jid=761240
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Talent Acquisition Team @ DarkMatter
DarkMatter LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Posting
About the Job
You will be responsible for research and analysis of new system attacks/threats, zero-day vulnerability discovery and, where appropriate, provide valuable research findings with vendors, bug bounty programs or publish them on our GitHub / website or through our publications, conference talks and white papers. This research also feeds into DarkMatter’s own product development, as well as the services and solutions we provide across the entire cyber security value chain.
About you
The ideal candidate will be passionate about security, vulnerabilities, and exploits. You possess the aptitude to analyze, find and exploit vulnerabilities, researching exploit techniques and mitigations, and build systems / tools to streamline reverse engineering analysis tasks. You are expected to be an expert in any one of the following domains: failure analysis, hardware reverse engineering, micro-probing, circuit editing.
Essential requirements:
- PhD or a Master\'s degree in Physics, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in Hardware Security Research or Semiconductor Failure Analysis
- Deep understanding of various hardware security vulnerabilities and threats, reverse engineering, circuit editing, and exploitation of test features
- Research experience in failure analysis and/or security products (access controls, application security, data security, anti-tampering mechanisms)
- Strong foundations in semiconductors, computer architecture and embedded systems
Please click on this link to apply - https://darkmatter.ae/en/careers?gh_jid=754026
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Talent Acquisition
DarkMatter LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Posting
Working in our headquarters located in the iconic Aldar HQ building in Abu Dhabi you will be joining a firm that is constantly looking to push boundaries. We have launched a full suite of cyber products and services including Governance, Risk & Compliance, Cyber Network Defense, Managed Security Services, Infrastructure & Systems Integration, as well as Secure Communications.
About the Job
You will be responsible for research and analysis of new system attacks/threats, zero-day vulnerability discovery and, where appropriate, provide valuable research findings with vendors, bug bounty programs or publish them on our GitHub / website or through our publications, conference talks and white papers. This research also feeds into DarkMatter’s own product development, as well as the services and solutions we provide across the entire cyber security value chain.
About you
The ideal candidate will be passionate about security, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
You possess the aptitude to analyze, find and exploit vulnerabilities, researching exploit techniques and mitigations, and build systems / tools to streamline reverse engineering analysis tasks. You are expected to be an expert in the wide field of hardware security, in particular in any one of the following domains: side-channel analysis (DPA/DEMA/cache-timing), glitching (voltage/clock), fault injection (laser/EM), hardware reverse engineering, chip-off forensics, micro-probing.
Essential requirements:
- PhD or a Master\'s degree in Physics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in Security Research.
- Deep understanding of various Embedded / hardware security vulnerabilities and threats, reverse engineering and exploitation of test features.
- Research experience in security products (vulnerability detection, side-channel and fault countermeasures, etc.)
Please click on this link to apply - https://darkmatter.ae/en/careers?gh_jid=749972
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Talent Acquisition
28 July 2017
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Job Posting
I am looking for PhD interns on cyber-physical system security (IoT, autonomous vehicle, power grid, and water treatment etc.), especially on the topics such as 1) Lightweight and low-latency crypto algorithms for CPS devices, 2) Resilient authentication of devices and data in CPS, 3) Advanced SCADA firewall to filter more sophisticated attacking packets in CPS, 4) Big data based threat analytics for detection of both known and unknown threats, 5) Attack mitigation to increase the resilience of CPS. The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses.
Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou.
Closing date for applications: 31 August 2017
Contact: Jianying Zhou
More information: http://jianying.space/
25 July 2017
Intelligent Voice Ltd, London City, UK
Job Posting
The cloud offers an ideal opportunity for storing large volumes of data. However, the storage of sensitive data such as speech in plain text format on the cloud is not permitted in many industry sectors such as finance, health care etc. Hence speech data should be encrypted before storage on the cloud, and because it contains biometric identifiers it must remain encrypted. The challenge then is to search over large amounts of encrypted speech and return encrypted search results that can be decrypted by the user only. Intelligent Voice are providers of the world\'s fastest speech to text engine, and we are looking for a talented researcher in semantic security and searchable encryption to join our research team. This post builds on existing research within Intelligent Voice on Searchable and Homomorphic cryptographic protocols for speech processing.
Applicants should have already completed, or be close to completing, a PhD in computer science, mathematics, or a related discipline. Applicants should have an excellent research track record demonstrated by publications at major cryptography/security venues, and should have significant experience in the design and deployment of cryptographic protocols.
To apply please send your CV (with publication list), a 1-page cover letter, and the names of at least two people who can provide reference letters (e-mail).
Closing date for applications: 31 August 2017
Contact: Gérard Chollet, Head of Research, Intelligent Voice Ltd
St Clare House, 30-33 Minories, London EC3N 1BP
gerard.chollet(at)intelligentvoice.com
Phone: +44 20 3627 2670
More information: http://www.intelligentvoice.com/
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Job Posting
USF is an R1 university and among the leading institutions in Florida. We are looking for motivated, talented, and hardworking applicants who have background and are interested in working on different aspects of Cryptographic Engineering with emphasis on:
- Cryptographic hardware systems
- Side-channel attacks, particularly fault and power analysis attacks
The required expertise includes:
- Masters (or Bachelors with outstanding background) in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Solid background in digital design, VLSI, computer arithmetic, and ASIC/FPGA implementations
- Solid HDL expertise
- Outstanding English (if English tests are taken) to be eligible for department funding
- Motivation to work beyond the expectations from an average Ph.D. student and publish in top tier venues
Please closely observe the admission requirement details here before emailing:
http://www.usf.edu/engineering/cse/graduate/phd-program.aspx
Please send me your updated CV (including list of publications, language test marks, and references), transcripts for B.Sc. (and/or M.Sc.), and a statement of interest at mmozaff (at) gmail.com as soon as possible.
NOTE: At this time, I consider only the applicants who have already taken TOEFL/IELTS and GRE exams with excellent marks (application deadline: Sep. 15th, 2017). The successful candidate will be asked to apply formally very soon to the USF CSE department, so all the material has to be ready.
Closing date for applications: 15 September 2017
Contact: Prof. Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani
Assistant Professor, CSE @ USF
21 July 2017
Newcastle University, UK
Job Posting
You will work on the project “Practical Data-intensive Secure Computation: a Data Structural Approach”. This is a project funded by the EPSRC. The aim of the project is to investigate how data structures can be used as an efficiency and scalability booster in the context of secure computation. The project has a particular emphasis on putting theory into practice. The project will investigate both data structures and cryptography.
You will design novel cryptographic data structures and associated protocols for efficient secure computation, as well as apply them in domains such as cloud computing and data mining in order to solve real-world security/privacy problems. Other responsibilities include: writing papers, presenting work at international conferences, and contributing to an open source software package. There will be opportunities to collaborate with industrial research labs and other leading universities.
The candidate must have:
* a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant area;
* a strong background in cryptography/security;
* good programming skills (C++/Java, parallel/GPU computing experience is a plus).
* good communication and time management skills.
Experience/knowledge in one or more of the following areas would be desirable but not essential: computer networks, operating systems, databases, statistics and data mining.
The post is available from January 2018, fixed term for 2 years and is full time. The post is based in the Security & Resilient Systems (SRS) Group within the School of Computing Science. The School is one of the Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) in the UK. In the latest 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment, the School ranked 9th overall and 1st for Research Impact among computer science departments in the UK.
Closing date for applications: 16 August 2017
Contact: Dr Changyu Dong (changyu.dong AT ncl.ac.uk)
More information: http://bit.ly/2tG6XJr
15 July 2017
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Job Posting
I am looking for highly motivated PhD students who are interested in conducting research in at least one of the following fields:
- network and systems security (Internet security, SSL/TLS, PKI, SDN, ...)
- FinTech security (blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, ...)
- security of cyber-physical systems (IoT, critical infrastructures, ...)
Candidates should have an excellent background (BSc/MSc degree) in computer science (or related), ability to work on inter-disciplinary research projects, good design and programming skills, and a strong interest in at least one of the listed fields.
The positions are fully funded up to 4 years with a very competitive scholarship. More information about the PhD program is available at https://istd.sutd.edu.sg/phd/phd-overview/.
Interested candidates should send a CV and a research statement to Pawel Szalachowski psz (at) inf.ethz.ch
Closing date for applications: 15 September 2017
University of Kent, UK
Job Posting
Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Internet of Things Security
- Human Aspects of Security
- Ransomware
- Tools for Vulnerability Analysis
Applicants should be a UK or EU national. Applicants should have a 2:1 in an undergraduate degree as a minimum. Masters or equivalent professional or research experience with computer security, computer networks or interdisciplinary collaboration is an advantage. Successful applicants will be supervised within the Security Research Group.
Closing date for applications: 21 July 2017
Contact: Budi Arief, b.arief (at) kent.ac.uk
More information: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/studyingforaphd/phd-cyber-2017.html