Hardware Design Engineer, PQShield
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Quantum-resistant cryptography
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Quantum-resistant cryptography
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To create the global standards and core technologies that power the security layer for 500 of the world's leading organisations.
Role
Who you are
- We hope that you have at least 5 years of experience working on hardware design of complex IPs targeted at deployment on latest generation FPGAs, preferably with some experience working with cryptographic and security IPs
- A commitment to high quality engineering in all areas of their work, including advocating for the best long-term solutions over the easiest or quickest
- Optimising designs for both area and performance in FPGA technologies
- Experience building hardware IP blocks from scratch, and owning the process from initial specification through to customer delivery
- Confidence bringing up a design using a basic “designers testbench”
- Experience with standard commercial EDA Design tooling flows
- Knowledge of common bus protocols (e.g. AMBA AXI4, AHB)
- Experience building and simulating hardware/software co-designs
- Confidence in debugging RTL simulations issues
- Degree or equivalent in Electronics/Computer Science or other related discipline
- 🖥️ Specific Technologies You Are Confident Using:
- FPGA and emulation experience. We use Xilinx FPGAs extensively for prototyping and hardware/firmware co-development
- Logical IP design using SystemVerilog
- Version control using Git
- Writing System and subsystem level tests in C, using CMake as a build system
- Confidence using tools like Bash, TCL, CMake and Makefiles safely and sensibly
Desirable
- Python scripting for flows and automation
- Experience debugging gate level simulations
- Knowledge of Industry standard SoC Security Architectures
- Knowledge of tamper resistance and/or power side-channel security countermeasures
- Experience using Gitlab CI, or otherwise principles of continuous integration and testing
What the job involves
- Reports to: Director of Hardware Engineering
- We’re seeking an experienced hardware design engineer to expand our cryptographic hardware IP team
- You would be joining a mature design team with a proven track record of delivering market leading cryptographic IP, your role would expose you to the latest cryptographic standards and allow you to develop for the latest technologies
- We have been established since 2018, so you would be directly working with the founders and inventors of this deep tech startup
- The technology is already a couple of years in the making, its feasibility having been established, funding secured, and it has a clear path to market
- This is a great opportunity for career progression and to get a head start in a rapidly expanding segment of the technology industry
- Design and implementation of hardware IP blocks and subsystems
- Tailoring implementations to FPGAs
- Working with verification engineers to create verification and test plans
- Creation of reliable, reusable and excellently structured hardware design flows
- Providing feedback to architects on feasibility of implementation and specification quality
- Ensuring clean lint and implementation reports for IP blocks and subsystems
Our take
Demand for quantum-ready solutions has been on the rise as companies seek to defend against the quantum security threat. PQShield is the only algorithm-agnostic cybersecurity company that demonstrates and delivers quantum-safe cryptography on chips, in applications, and in the cloud.
Setting the global standards for post-quantum cryptography, the company’s researchers and advisory board led the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s post-quantum standardisation project. This demonstrates the levels of experience and expertise that have built the organization, which allows it to operate at the front of the industry.
Supported by strong funding, PQShield has continued R&D, furthered partnerships and widened its customer base. This enables the company to deliver real-world, post-quantum hardware and software upgrades to help businesses keep up with the standards of today and tomorrow.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- Remote first (work wherever is best)
- A WFH allowance for our remote-working colleagues
- High-end IT equipment (multiple platforms)
- Generous pension contribution
- Private health cover for you and your immediate family
- 50% reimbursed from your gym membership
- Many more perks, depending on where you’re based
Company HQ
Summertown, Oxford, UK
Leadership
Dr. Ali El Kaafarani
(Founder & CEO)Former Postdoctoral Researcher and current Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Former Research engineer at HP. Received their Ph.D in Cryptography from the University of Bath.
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