Intel Labs is the company's world-class, industry leading research organization, responsible for driving Intel's technology pipeline and creating new opportunities. The mission of Intel Labs is to deliver breakthrough technologies to fuel Intel's growth. This includes identifying and exploring compelling new technologies and high-risk opportunities ahead of business unit investment and demonstrating first-to-market technologies and innovative new usages for computing technology. Intel Labs engages the leading thinkers in academia and industry in addition to partnering closely with Intel business units.The mission of Security and Privacy Research is to Establish trustworthiness as a fundamental value proposition on Intel platforms.

You will join a team of accomplished security technologists to uniquely focus on the definition of next generation of security solutions. Your work will help in laying the foundation for future Intel products. As a Research Scientist in the Security and Privacy Research group, you will have the opportunity to deeply influence the shape of both the software and hardware architectures that undergird a wide variety of usages to address exploits, malware, and other evolving security threats. This role involves defining, prototyping, evaluating, and presenting novel approaches for enforcing security properties across a spectrum of devices, including server, client, and IOT platforms.  

The successful candidate is expected to:

Maintain substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art principles and theories. Contribute to scientific literature via papers and presentations. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of security-related scientific research projects to fuel Intel's growth in the areas of data processing and network communications related to new and existing business opportunities. Use scientific methods to investigate the feasibility of novel concepts typically 5-7+ years prior to landing on a product roadmap. Validate ideas through prototyping, including systems software (Operating Systems, Virtual Machine Monitors, compilers, runtime libraries), CPU simulations, FPGAs and working with CPU/GPU/XPU ISA/hardware/microcode extensions. Participate in development of intellectual property related to their research. Independent thinker and team player to move state of the art technologies forward. The candidate should possess strong analytic skills and ability to work in a dynamic and team-oriented environment. This is an entry level position and compensation will be given accordingly.

This is an entry level position and compensation will be given accordingly.

Qualifications

You must possess the below requirements to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Experience listed below would be obtained through a combination of your schoolwork and/or classes and/or research and/or relevant previous job and/or internship experiences


Minimum Requirements:

• The candidate must possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, with a focus on platform security, core architecture, accelerators, system software, or memory management.
• Research in at least one of the following areas: Platform security, memory safety, malware exploits / analysis, security-relevant systems software, core architecture, accelerators
• 2+ years of experience in Computer architecture
• 1+ year of experience with Git.
• 2+ years of experience in C, C++ or Rust experience.
• 2+ years of debugging experience with gdb/lldb/idb.
• 1+ year of experience with IA-32 assembly language
• 2+ years of experience with Linux-based operating systems and development environments, e.g. shell, ssh, and make.
   

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience/knowledge in one or more of the following:

• Trustworthy computing, anti-malware, compartmentalization, microservices for cloud computing,
• Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), browser security
• 2+ years of experience with accelerated computing, e.g., OpenCL, SyCL, or drivers for accelerators
• 1+ year of experience developing substantial LLVM compiler enhancements or other compiler experience.
• 1+ years of experience in modifying the Linux kernel
• 2+ years of experience in security and/or cryptography
• 1+ year of experience with microservices or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) orchestration frameworks and runtimes
• 1+ year experience modifying linker
• 1+ year experience with virtualization

Intel Labs is the company's world-class, industry leading research organization, responsible for driving Intel's technology pipeline and creating new opportunities. The mission of Intel Labs is to deliver breakthrough technologies to fuel Intel's growth. This includes identifying and exploring compelling new technologies and high risk opportunities ahead of business unit investment and demonstrating first-to-market technologies and innovative new usages for computing technology. Intel Labs engages the leading thinkers in academia and industry in addition to partnering closely with Intel business units.

Other Locations

US, California, Santa Clara;US, Georgia, Atlanta;US, New York, New York;Virtual US and Canada

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in US, Colorado:
$113,500.00-$170,120.00

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