Product Security engineer

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Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Are you ready to be part of a team that is transforming information into intelligence? Micron Technology is seeking a Product Security Engineer in Italy. Join us and contribute to innovative, world-class memory and storage solutions that encourage the world to learn, communicate, and advance faster than ever!

Job Description

Department description

Micron’s Edge Devices Group (EDG) develops and supports innovative, efficient, cost-optimized products for edge applications, spanning client and automotive SSD, UFS, eMMC to ensure product performance, reliability, and customer happiness across demanding markets. EDG offers the outstanding opportunity to work on groundbreaking technologies, solve complex technical challenges, and directly contribute to product quality and continuous improvement.

Position overview

As an EDG Security Engineer, you will be responsible for improving the cybersecurity robustness of embedded storage products. You will collaborate with the Product Security Office and various teams including System Architecture, Firmware Development, Validation, Verification, and Build, even from external suppliers. Your role will involve identifying security issues in firmware, HW/FW interfaces, vendor commands for testing, authentication mechanisms, secure boot, and firmware-update flows. You will also propose and support the introduction of mitigations and measure their efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• Strong knowledge of C/C++ and embedded firmware, including memory management, interrupt handling, and low-level debugging.
• Knowledge of software vulnerabilities such as buffer/integer overflows, exploitable windows, race conditions, and authentication bypass.
• Experience with embedded debugging tools like JTAG, GNU Debugger, UART, tracing ports, and logic analyzers.
• Understanding of security features including Secure Boot, authentication and signature verification, SHA, symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, and key management.
• Capability to analyze unexpected device behavior, formulate and verify successful attack hypotheses, and triage findings to filter false positives.
• Knowledge of AI tool and methodologies leveraging AI to check system vulnerabilities SW/FW based

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fault injection techniques based on voltage, clock, electromagnetic or laser-based pulses, and/or timing/power side-channel analysis.
• Experience with fuzzing, generating invalid, malformed, and unexpected protocol inputs, and prioritising hangs and crashes for root cause identification.
• Capability to perform software and firmware binary analysis through brand new tools AI based.
• Experience with static analysis including AI-assisted scanning tools.
• Knowledge of embedded memory protocols and architectures, including SSD, UFS, and eMMC.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and methodologies such as ISO21434, NIST and FIPS, Common Criteria, TARA, and SDL practices.

The base salary range that Micron estimates it could pay in for this position full-time is:

42.000,00 € - 72.000,00 € per year, with B3 CCNL Level.

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In addition to base pay, the remuneration package also includes: eligibility for a variable plan subject to the personal achievement of objectives and the company's performance, and benefits, which -at the discretion of the company- currently include meal vouchers, corporate welfare, yearly allowance of remote working days, supplementary health insurance, life coverage, Employee Assistance Program. Please refer to this page to check our current benefit offering: EMEA Benefits

 
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About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® brand. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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