Cybersecurity Analyst — Semiconductor IP

You will be a Cybersecurity Analyst working on Semiconductor IP at Synopsys, a leading company in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Your role involves leading threat analysis for semiconductor IP, running security analysis throughout the cybersecurity lifecycle, advising product teams on cybersecurity requirements, and authoring customer-facing security integration guidance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead threat analysis for semiconductor IP and associated firmware
• Run security analysis as part of the cybersecurity lifecycle
• Advise product teams on cybersecurity requirements, architecture, and verification
• Author customer-facing security integration guidance
• Review RTL, architecture, and verification intent against secure-design principles
• Support in-field cybersecurity activities
• Facilitate working sessions with cybersecurity architects and design and verification leads
• Deliver analysis incrementally with product teams working in agile sprints
• Use Python to automate analysis and produce repeatable reports
• Use agentic workflows to speed research and routine tasks
• Run the job in Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field
• Typically, 4 or more years in product cybersecurity, embedded security, digital design, digital verification, or a closely related engineering role
• Practical experience performing threat modeling or threat analysis and risk assessment
• Ability to identify assets, attackers, attack surfaces, and attack paths
• Comfort working without a single known end-system
• Experience applying a cybersecurity lifecycle
• Ability to turn threat-analysis results into requirements, design guidance, verification objectives, and release evidence
• Hands-on understanding of embedded systems
• Ability to reason about hardware-rooted threats and firmware threats
• Hands-on proficiency as a digital designer or a digital verification engineer
• Ability to read and discuss RTL, architecture, interfaces, and register maps
• Ability to judge whether a claimed cybersecurity control is implemented in the design
• Experience delivering analysis or engineering work inside agile product teams
• Ability to write and maintain Python for analysis and automation
• Practical experience using AI agents and agentic workflows
• Hands-on use of Jira, Confluence, Git, and GitLab
• Clear written and spoken English
• Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 or a comparable product-cybersecurity standard is helpful

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans
• Time away programs
• Family support
• ESPP
• Retirement plans
• Competitive salaries