Architectural Engineer Hardware Security & Anti-Tampering
Architect hardware security for space electronics at Antwerp Space: define security requirements, design secure processing elements, roots of trust and anti-tamper protections, and support validation and accreditation. Core focus areas include secure boot, HSMs, trusted execution environments, side-channel/fault-injection threats, and certification frameworks like Common Criteria.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hoboken, Antwerp
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Hardware
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Eligible for EU security clearance (EU citizen, or eligible for citizenship and living in the EU at least 10 years)
- Willing to relocate to Belgium before contract start (prerequisite for employment)
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in hardware or embedded system security engineering
- Experience with hardware security mechanisms: secure boot, cryptographic key storage, hardware roots of trust, trusted execution environments
- Experience performing security architecture analysis or threat modelling for embedded or hardware systems
- Understanding of anti-tamper and hardware attack mitigation techniques
- Experience contributing to security assurance, certification, or accreditation activities
- Strong understanding of hardware security architectures: roots of trust, secure elements, HSM, TEE
- Experience with anti-tamper and tamper-resistant design techniques
- Knowledge of hardware attack vectors: side-channel attacks, fault injection, reverse engineering, hardware probing/debugging
- Understanding of secure boot mechanisms, key management, and secure device identity
- Familiarity with information leakage via electromagnetic/unintended emissions (TEMPEST/EMSEC)
- Experience performing security threat analysis and risk assessments for embedded or hardware systems
- Understanding of system partitioning and security isolation mechanisms
- Experience with hardware/software co-design in secure systems
- Familiarity with security certification or accreditation frameworks (Common Criteria, SESIP, FIPS 140-3, or equivalent)
- Experience working in high-assurance environments (aerospace, defense, telecommunications, semiconductor)
- Willingness to travel (short-term missions abroad)
- Ability to communicate complex security concepts to engineering teams and non-specialist stakeholders
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment involving hardware, firmware, software, and system engineering
- Excellent communication skills with high flexibility; team player able to work independently and in large projects
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Dutch and French
- Familiarity with ASIC design
Full description
About Antwerp Space
Antwerp Space is a leading Belgian space engineering company and an industrial player well-recognized by the European Space Agency and the European Commission. Antwerp Space has an established presence in the European space market and in several cases is taking the lead in technically complex space projects, supported by a consortium of partners from all over Europe.
The company employs highly skilled engineers and technicians from all over the world, the majority of whom hold an engineering degree, with strong expertise in the areas of digital signal processing, hardware and software design, as well as in project management and technical leadership.
OHB SE Group
Antwerp Space is part of the OHB SE group, one of Europe’s success stories in the field of contemporary space. Today it can call itself the third largest space group in Europe.
The OHB SE group has been growing at a steady pace over the last three decades and its footprint in Europe has continuously expanded. Nowadays, there are subsidiaries in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg, Greece, the Czech Republic and Belgium. Despite its size, OHB SE is still a family business, run by the Fuchs family.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a Security Architect specialized in hardware and embedded security to help design and secure advanced electronic systems. The position requires a solid understanding of hardware-level threats and protections, going beyond traditional IT cybersecurity to address physical attacks, tamper resistance, and secure hardware integration.
You’ll be reporting to the System Engineering team lead, project teams, and collaborating with colleagues from the operational department.
In this role you will:
- contribute to the design, security analysis, and accreditation of hardware security architectures, including secure processing elements, root-of-trust components, and anti-tamper protections.
- You will work at the system level, identifying security requirements and translating them into concrete architectural solutions and ensuring that hardware implementations meet the required security assurance levels.
- You will collaborate closely with system architects, hardware designers, software teams, and security authorities to ensure that security is built into the system architecture from the earliest design stages through validation and accreditation.
The ideal candidate combines system-level thinking with deep understanding of hardware security mechanisms and is comfortable working in multidisciplinary engineering environments.
Mandatory Requirements
- Eligible for an EU security clearance (EU citizen, or eligible for citizenship and living in the EU for at least 10 years.