Principal Embedded Security Vulnerability Analyst (Embedded Security)

Location: Gratkorn, Austria

Company

hirify.global develops security-critical semiconductor and embedded system technologies.

What you will do

• Lead in-depth vulnerability analysis of bare-metal software, RTOS components, trusted execution environments, boot flows, and privilege boundaries.
• Investigate security-critical components such as cryptographic libraries, key-handling mechanisms, and isolation systems.
• Own root cause analysis, exploitability assessment, and evaluation of systemic impact.
• Define security evaluation strategies for PSA, SESIP, Common Criteria, and related certifications.
• Architect scalable analysis methodologies and tooling using static analysis, dynamic analysis, fuzzing, automation, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead PSIRT incident analysis, influence product architecture, and mentor engineers in vulnerability research methods.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert understanding of low-level system behavior, including memory layout, interrupts, privilege levels, and concurrency.
• Extensive C programming experience and strong familiarity with ARM and/or RISC-V architectures.
• Strong experience with assembly-level debugging and low-level system analysis.
• Ability to lead complex technical investigations, communicate security risks clearly, influence technical direction, and mentor engineers.
• Security-related work may fall within the scope of security certifications and requires a conscious, reliable working approach.

Nice to have

• Experience in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, exploit development, static or dynamic analysis, fuzzing, or symbolic execution.
• Knowledge of memory corruption, logic flaws, side channels, and exploitation techniques.
• Experience with JTAG, trace, GDB, scalable analysis pipelines, distributed systems, or agent-based approaches.
• Experience operationalizing AI-assisted vulnerability discovery tools and workflows.
• Rust experience or a strong interest in memory-safe system design.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to influence the security architecture of next-generation products and silicon.
• Collaboration across hardware, firmware, and applied security research.
• Environment focused on deep technical expertise and offensive security thinking.
• Home office options and flexible working time.
• Market-competitive compensation benchmarked against the Austrian electronics and semiconductor industry, plus meal benefits and other employee benefits.