Soc Security Architect, Google Cloud Silicon

Google Google · Big Tech · Tel Aviv, Israel +1

This role focuses on the security architecture of custom silicon for Google Cloud's Edge-Artificial Intelligence products. The primary responsibility is to define and implement hardware security primitives and countermeasures against physical and logical attacks to protect AI accelerators and sensitive information. The role involves working with distributed inference technology and ensuring the security and impenetrability of hardware for edge AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and document the security architecture and flows for systems on a chip (SoCs), covering hardware root of trust, secure boot, and cryptographic acceleration.
  2. Lead the strategy and implementation of countermeasures against physical attacks, including side-channel analysis, fault injection, and silicon invasive attacks.
  3. Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for SoC subsystems, balancing security with power, performance, and area constraints.
  4. Collaborate with hardware design and verification teams to ensure security features are implemented and resilient against both logical and physical vectors.
  5. Drive the evaluation and selection of security intellectual property (IP), and provide technical leadership during multi-functional design reviews.

Skills

Required

  • SoC security architecture
  • hardware design
  • security research
  • hardware root of trust architecture
  • secure boot sequences
  • hardware-based key management
  • countermeasures against physical attacks
  • cryptographic algorithms
  • hardware implementation trade-offs

Nice to have

  • hardware safety mechanisms
  • ASIL-B or ASIL-D
  • SIL 2 or SIL 3
  • Logic-BIST (LBIST)
  • software test libraries
  • memory protection
  • industry security standards
  • FIPS 140-3
  • Common Criteria
  • functional safety primitives
  • safety islands
  • distributed error monitors
  • global error management flows

What the JD emphasized

  • Security-First mindset
  • hardware security primitives
  • protect Google's infrastructure from the foundation up
  • protecting against sophisticated lab-based attacks
  • protect sensitive information by silicon countermeasures
  • accelerators are not only performant but also impenetrable
  • security architecture
  • countermeasures against physical attacks
  • threat modeling and risk assessments
  • security features
  • security intellectual property (IP)