Senior Hardware Security Researcher

Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Research Centre

This role is part of TII’s Cryptography Labs Hardware team.

Job Title : Senior Hardware Security Researcher

Responsibilities

• Conduct hardware and firmware security assessments, combining physical and logical attack techniques to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
• Perform memory extraction from Flash, EEPROM, NOR / NAND, or other storage devices.
• Reverse engineer firmware and binaries using tools such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or radare2 to uncover security weaknesses.
• Implement and automate custom test benches and toolchains for HW / SW analysis.
• Execute and analyze side-channel attacks (CPA, DPA, EM, timing, TVLA) and fault injection campaigns (voltage glitching, EMFI, laser) on embedded targets.
• Analyze secure boot, cryptographic primitives, and firmware protection mechanisms to identify design and implementation weaknesses.
• Interface with embedded systems through JTAG, SWD, UART, SPI, and similar debug or communication protocols.
• Deliver clear, well-documented technical reports.

Required Qualifications

At TII, we help society to overcome its biggest hurdles through a rigorous approach to scientific discovery and inquiry, using state‑of‑the‑art facilities and collaboration with leading international institutions. Our rigorous discovery and inquiry‑based approach helps to forge new and disruptive breakthroughs in AI, advanced materials, autonomous robotics, cryptography, digital security, directed energy, quantum computing and secure systems.

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