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JR70576 Internship on Cybersecurity

Job Description Summary

This Job Description is for an internship role.

As an intern at Micron Technology, Inc., you will have the opportunity to work for a global manufacturer of memory devices, one of the few companies to produce silicon chips worldwide. You will work in a state-of-the-art electronics laboratory to perform Side Channel Analysis penetration testing activities on a real world device.

Justification

Side Channel Analysis is a set of techniques that exploit the naturally occurring correlation between processed data and physical variables (power consumption, electro-magnetic emission) to extract a secret key from a target device in a non-invasive way.
Micron is a global company that covers a wide range of markets, ranging from enterprise datacenter, to client PCs, to mobile to automotive. Micron’s products are trusted with data that can be sensitive for privacy, safety or economic reasons; therefore its products need to be tested and resistant against sophisticated attacks like Side Channel Analysis, applying known and future attacks as well as validating proposed mitigations. The candidate will learn the basics of Side Channel Analysis on a training target, and apply Side Channel techniques the company’s product portfolio, implementing the necessary tools to achieve the desired outcome. Finally an architectural analysis of potential solutions will be carried out, enabling the candidate’s work to secure a real world device.

Experience / Skills:

• Ability to implement Digital Signal Processing techniques
• Experience in the use of Digital Sampling Oscilloscopes and lab tools
• Expertise in the use of scripting languages, programming tools and environments
• Extensive experience programming in Python
• Familiarity with embedded system development in C
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Curiosity and passion towards product security
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of day-to-day supervision
• Ability to work in a multi-functional team globally distributed

Education:

The ideal candidate is pursuing master degree in computer science engineering, electronic engineering and physics

Additional Job Description

Designs and develops software and firmware tools to collect Side Channel traces from a real world device, implements a Digital Signal Processing pipeline to pre-process the collected traces, implements statistical attacks to assess leakage levels (Test Leakage Vector Assessment) or implement attacks (Correlation Power Analysis). Evaluates architectural solution to mitigate Side Channel Analysis attacks.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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