Secure Boot Engineer

Are you curious about how an embedded system comes alive? Are you passionate about writing code that fits into very constrained resources? Does cyber security interest you? Then you might be the one we are looking for to join us at Technologies, one of the departments within Axis R&D, with responsibility for developing Axis product platforms that are the base for all Axis Video Surveillance Products.

Who is your future team?

Product Platforms is a key part of the Technologies department at Axis R&D. Currently, it consists of four highly skilled and motivated R&D teams based in Lund, featuring a great mix of junior and senior team members. Our teams value personal growth, collaboration, and teamwork. If you're someone who enjoys making an impact and contributing to positive change, you'll feel right at home with us.

We are now expanding and building a new team in our Stockholm office to strengthen our capabilities.

What you'll do here as Secure Boot Engineer?

In your daily work, you will typically engage in the following activities:

• Collaborate with ASIC design engineers to develop secure and efficient boot solutions.
• Write and maintain robust, secure and reliable high-quality code.
• Design, implement, and utilize test environments needed to validate your code.
• Participate in design reviews and technical discussions to ensure the quality and feasibility of solutions.
• Stay informed about industry advancements related to secure boot and incorporate relevant trends into your work.

In this role, you will (together with some skilled colleagues) mainly be working in the following areas:

• BootROM and boot loader software (primary responsibility)
• Secure boot through all boot stages
• Firmware for sub-systems having their own CPU core

Who are we looking for?

You are an analytic and dedicated person with a strong personal drive and an ability to work both unsupervised and as a part of a team. You have the ability to think ahead and design future proof solutions. You possess strong attention to detail and take pride in developing code that meets the highest quality and security standards.

Required qualifications:

• A master's degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering or similar
• Experience in embedded C development, particularly close to hardware
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in secure development and testing practices
• Familiarity with version control systems and code review tools (preferably Git and Gerrit)

Preferred qualifications:

• An interest and expertise in the boot process of embedded devices, with prior experience in developing BootROMs and first-stage bootloaders
• Experience from working with RTL simulation and associated tools to verify BootROM prior to silicon available
• Experience from using QEMU as a tool to make a system simulation environment
• Basic understanding for how functional blocks in an ASIC gets designed

Additional valuable qualifications:

• Experience with Python and Rust development
• Experience from working with counter measurements against fault injection attacks during boot

The position is office-based and you will be located in Axis office in Stockholm, Sweden.

What Axis have to offer

Openness might be a buzz word in other companies, but at Axis this is the core of who we are. Our most important asset is our ability to cooperate. We have realized that great ideas can come from anywhere. This is why we encourage everybody to contribute and innovate. If you are a person that likes to get involved and make a difference and nudge the world a little bit in the right direction, you will find a home with us.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of building our new R&D office in Stockholm. On one hand, having the advantages of being a small and agile site while at the same time being part of an exciting, successful organization that is already the world leader in network video.

We offer benefits such as flexible working hours, morning fika every day, company bonus, attractive wellness benefits, health insurance - to name a few.

We hope you are really inspired by the job description and found a potential match! We are looking forward to receiving your application!

If you have any questions, get in touch with Erik Thored, Engineering Manager for the Common Core Platforms team, at +46 46 272 1800.

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